On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 6:58 PM, Glenn Golden <g...@zplane.com> wrote: > Version info: > > fvwm 2.6.7 compiled on Nov 30 2016 at 13:19:18 with support for: > ReadLine, Stroke, XPM, SVG, Shape, XShm, SM, Bidi text, Xinerama, > XRender, XCursor, XFT, NLS > > > Glenn Golden <g...@zplane.com> [2018-07-13 16:45:36 -0600]: >> "They kill, they maim, and they call information for numbers they could >> easily look up in the phone book." >> >> - Woody Allen, 'What's up Tiger Lily?', 1966 >> >> -- >> >> Here is a simple sounding question that probably been answered many times, >> but >> after googling and wikiing awhile, still haven't found quite what I'm after. >> >> When iconifying a window, how to force the icon to exactly the same screen >> position it occupied the last time it was iconified? >> >> I don't use any icon manager or icon organization scheme, and don't want to. >> >> Typical example: >> >> 1. Start xv, do "something" [see below] >> 2. Iconify xv. It iconifies to a position I don't like, call it A >> 3. Move the icon to position I do like, call it B >> 4. Later, click the icon to open xv and do another thing. >> 5. Iconify xv. It returns to A, not B. >> >> It seems the above behavior is also influenced by what the "something" in >> Step #1 is. If "something" is nothing at all -- i.e. just start xv and >> immediately iconify it and reposition the icon to B -- then opening xv in >> Step 4 and re-iconifying it returns the icon to B not A. But if "something" >> is (say) doing a screen capture or opening the image editor, then iconifying >> after that returns the icon to position A. >> >> What's going on with this? Can the icon position be forced? >
I was unable to find a copy of xv to test it, but everything else I iconify honors the new position. Maybe xv is doing something odd? Have you tried specifying something like Style xv NoUseIconPosition ?
