re forcing a window manager to accept specific coordinates for a window bading cs tu berlin de tobias doping bading writes try this after xcreatewindow xsizehints flags usposition ussize or pposition psize xsetwmnormalhints display window xsizehints these hints tell the window manager that the position and size of the window are specified by the users and that the window manager should accept these values if you use xsizehints flags pposition psize this tells the window manager that the values are prefered values of the program not the user i don t know a window manager that doesn t place the window like you prefer if you specify the position and size like above sorry but olwm and tvtwm don t do it they place the title at that position and the window at a position below it this becomes a problem when you want a program to be able to save its current configuration and restore is later currently my solution is xcreatewindow xsetwmproperties xmapwindow xflush xmovewindow it works with olwm but is less than elegant all this leaves me wondering if i m overlooking something obvious richard
