Re: How to make gnome auto center all new windows on screen?

Hi Florian.

On date Wednesday 2007-01-17 12:12:11 -0800, Florian Sauer wrote:
Currently, all of them show up in the upper left corner and I tried to find
an option to auto center all new windows to the center.

For example, each time I send a message using Thunderbird I need to move the
message window around.

This is under Fedora Core 5.

It's a window manager problem, you should tweak the configuration of
your window manager (that in Gnome is defaulted to Metacity).

For example with Sawfish I have to launch the window manager
configurator, select the "Placement" tab and choose the policy for
placing the new opened windows ("Centered" in this case).


Hmm, maybe this is a total newbee question, I am just converting from
Windows. :-)


Welcome to Gnu/Linux, enjoy the freedom!

HTH
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Stefano Sabatini
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