Window placement enhancement

[oredaze]

I suspect this would be a rather minor thing to implement, but very nice. The idea is that you use a combination of PositionPlacement Center(for the first one) and MinOverlapPlacement (for the rest). Openbox does this and it's the way that makes the most sense to me.

[ThomasAdam]

Hi @oredaze

Is this for one type of window, or all? Either way you should be able to do this with something like:

Style * InitialMapCommand Foo

DestroyFunc Foo
AddToFunc Foo
+ I None ($[w.class]) Move ....
+ I TestRc (NoMatch) Style .... MinOverlapPlacement

[oredaze]

It is for all types of windows. I have tried to make this work based on your example, but I can't. The type of logic that these functions use is kinda confusing to me. It looks to me as if your example tries to Move a window if no window exists, which obviously can't happen, and if a window exists it just goes to the TestRc line...

Also I am not sure if my explanation was clear enough, so let me paraphrase myself just in case: The placement of the very first window in an empty desktop should be centered, the second and following ones should use MinOverlapPlacement.

[ThomasAdam]

This can be done through conditionals and PipeRead -- I don't think this feature needs adding directly to fvwm3.