[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] x11 vo drivers override user settings for window placement

[Erik Auerswald]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 05:29:16PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> > 
> > Well, finding the right -geometry options should be a matter of
> > seconds (-geometry +xpos+ypos) unless you want some different
> > behaviour than it offers.
> 
> The trouble is that the correct values for 'xpos' and 'ypos' are not
> remotely obvious, and have to be found by extensive experimentation -
> whereas with window-manager position memory, I can just move the window
> to the desired place, tell the WM "remember this", and have it figure
> out the correct X/Y automatically.
> 
> It would probably be possible to obtain the X and Y coordinates the WM
> uses for positioning the remembered window, but I have no idea how and
> it - once again - seems like more effort than should be necessary.

The program xwininfo can be used to get the geometry information of a
window.

Erik