Help: x11 position in the Unix environment

Hello,

In the Unix environment, I open a window by x11(). May I specify the
position of this window by specifying the position of the top left of
the window as in Windows environment? Or some other parameters can be
used to do that?

Thank you,
Shengzhe

I don't believe so. In general, under Unix/Linux, the Window Manager
determines window positioning upon startup unless the application
overrides this behavior. Some applications let you specify application
window positioning via command line 'geometry' arguments or via the use
of an .Xresources file. 

Some WM's provide more or less functionality for this behavior relative
to user customization. For example, Sawfish provides quite a bit,
whereas Metacity hides much of it.

You may want to check the documentation for the WM that you are using.

There is also an application called Devil's Pie:

  http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie

which provides additional Sawfish-like customization for window
positioning, etc. However, this is global for a given window, not on a
per instance basis.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz

I don't believe so. In general, under Unix/Linux, the Window Manager
determines window positioning upon startup unless the application
overrides this behavior. Some applications let you specify application
window positioning via command line 'geometry' arguments or via the use
of an .Xresources file. 

Splus used to have extensive control of the graphics window via X 
resources - here's a chunk from an old Xresources file of mine:

splus*background:       blue
splus*Canvas.height:    632
splus*Canvas.width:     800
splus*Command*background:       red
splus*Command*foreground:       cyan
splus*Label*background: cyan
splus*Label*foreground: red
splus*Text*background:  #a0f
splus*Text*foreground:  yellow
splus*colors:   white black white 54 black

  - and so on and so forth. Sadly I dont think such customisation is 
coded into R's X11 graphics window. Looking at the code there is no sign 
of it playing with X11's resource database. Shame.

Baz