Howdy, So I am taking your answer to mean: "FVWM can't move a window by handing it an X11 formatted geometry string"
Any particular reason for this void? Screen resolutions do change. For my intended purpose, that particular condition is not a factor. Thanks in advance! >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: Re: FVWM: Resizing any window to a known geometry >From: Thomas Adam <tho...@fvwm.org> >Date: Thu, December 13, 2012 5:16 pm >To: msib...@crosswire.com >Cc: fvwm@fvwm.org > > >On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 02:32:25PM -0700, msib...@crosswire.com wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I'd like to do something like the following: >> >> SetEnv CAPGEOM '800x600+10+10' >> Key F6 A A ThisWindow (!Iconic) Move $[CAPGEOM] >> >> The purpose is to stack various windows at exactly the same resolution >> for consistent screen capturing. >> >> What is the best way to move a window to a known static geometry? Is >> there a command that will move/resize a window based on a formatted X11 >> geometry string? > >This is nothing more than a question of semantics, for which you should see >the ResizeMove command in your case. > >Note that offsets for "consistent screen capturing" as you put it vary with >resolution changes. > >-- Thomas Adam