[openbox] ob and wmctrl

[John Russell]

On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 18:01, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Christian Timmer wrote:
> 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I want to control with wmctrl at which position my aterm starts. The menu-entry looks like this:
> > 
> > <item label="aterm">
> >       <action name="Execute"><execute>aterm -title ...::aterm::... -e screen -A</execute></action>
> >       <action name="Execute"><execute>wmctrl -r aterm -e 0,5,450,-1,-1</execute></action>
> > </item>
> > 
> > Strange, but this doesn't work. I've tested wmctrl with various other apps inside the ob-menu, but I can't get it to work correctly. Btw, it works when I start wmctrl outside the ob-menu.
> > 
> > Does anyone have a solution for this?
> 
> man aterm reveals the -geometry option
> 

I'm pretty sure that geometry dictates the size of the window, not the
position.

John