Re: Qt window placement

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2014, Ethan A Merritt wrote:

> At some point between 4.6 and current CVS, the initial placement of
> Qt plot windows has changed.
>
> It used to be that the Qt plot window would open nicely in some unoccupied
> part of the screen, probably because that is how I set the window manager
> policy.
>
> Now it always opens in the center of the screen, which is probably the
> worst possible place.  Changing the window manager placement policy
> has no effect.
>
> How can we restore the previous behaviour?

For the few months I've been running Arch linux, using whichever gnuplot 
4.6 variant was current in the Arch repositories (right now, 4.6.5). The 
Qt terminal is apparently the default on Arch (maybe not unconditionally, 
but seems to be the case if the Qt libraries are installed; I have Qt 
4.8.5).

On that basis I'm afraid I can't agree that the gnuplot 4.6 behavior is to 
"open [Qt windows] nicely in some unoccupied part of the screen". On my 
system the Qt gnuplot windows open partially off-screen: I have to move 
them inboard to see the whole plot. I'm not sure whether opening in the 
center of the screen would be better or worse!

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Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC