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doesn't remember last position

Open Sadi58 opened this issue 9 years ago • 4 comments

I prefer positioning this widget at the top right corner of my screen, but it always starts in the middle, and then I need to drag it to the desired position after every login. I wish it remembered the last position and started there next time.

Sadi58 avatar Nov 17 '16 19:11 Sadi58

I prefer positioning this widget at the top right corner of my screen, but it always starts in the middle, and then I need to drag it to the desired position after every login. I wish it remembered the last position and started there next time.

Me and you both :)), to be honest I think this might be a Unity issue again. I have this issue aswell it seems others do not, this will change in the near future...hoping it will also fix your shadow/border issue aswell.

vadrian89 avatar Nov 18 '16 19:11 vadrian89

OK. Thanks.

Sadi58 avatar Nov 19 '16 08:11 Sadi58

I think a config file (at ~/.cumulus or ~/.config/cumulus or ~/.local/share/cumulus) could be very useful - I usually use a startup script (modifying one or two values in config file) to change the position of such a desktop widget when I switch between external monitor and laptop display. This might also help address issue https://github.com/kd8bny/cumulus/issues/15 similar to gis-weather which uses config1 and config2 when you run 2 instances.

Sadi58 avatar Nov 28 '16 11:11 Sadi58

Hi, Sorry for going so long without any news and updates, I'm working on a port to Qt for the appllication, This means more opportunity for extending it in the future with more options, especially with Ubuntu's transition to Qt(with Unity 8) but this is in the long run :P.

I have already ported it to Qt/Qml but I am unhappy with the dependencies required to run it and I will move it to Qt/C++ since it would mean fewer required libraries.
After the port it will save the location corectly, the location will be saved in a config file, will be able to use command line arguments and add more features in the future easily.

You can follow-up on updates here.

vadrian89 avatar Nov 28 '16 12:11 vadrian89