Default window placement/positioning
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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metacity (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Wishlist
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Since the smart-window placement/
I have a large screen, and would like the option for windows satisfying these conditions to be placed in the centre of the screen as I find myself continually dragging the windows back to the centre.
Example:
Open firefox (or a similar application which takes up most of the screen) - It is opened in the location stored by firefox.
Open another firefox window - It is opened in the top-left of the screen forcing the user to drag it back to their preferred position where the first window opened.
Thank you for your bug. That feature request has been rejected upstream: http:// bugzilla. gnome.org/ show_bug. cgi?id= 151818. Doing the same for that task since we don't want to divert from upstream on that. Feel free to argue upstream though