[Gramps-users] newbie Q: initial location of windows

[Paul F. <pf....@gm...>]

This is my first post to this list.  My apologies in advance
if I do something wrong, don't follow protocol, etc.  Please
feel free to let me know.

My family will have its first reunion this August and I have
been appointed/volunteered into doing the family tree for it.
Since I know nothing about genealogy programs I did a
Google search ("free linux genealogy program" maybe)
and then downloaded 3.1.3-1 for Fedora 12.

I am learning what to do and how to do it and have some
questions, so I thought I would ask here, but if the answer
is out there please feel free to point me to it (although I
would appreciate a specific pointer and not just "the wiki").

I just wanted to create a new "family" and when the window
popped up I was reminded of something I was curious about.
It popped up in the upper-left corner of my desktop and I am
wondering if there is any way to control its creation-location?
(But not specific to any particular window manager.)

Can I set some flag, some preference, some environmental
variable, some line in a control file (is there such a control
file? say in my ~/.gramps tree?), etc., to make such windows
appear where I want them to appear?

Say in the center of my desktop?  Or at some specific X,Y
coordinate?  I find it bothersome to have to drag every
window over to where my eyes feel comfortable viewing it.

I doubt it matters but just for the record I am running gramps
on a Fedora 12 partition on another (faster) machine, which
NFS-mounts my home directory, and then I ssh to that F12,
so that my DISPLAY envariable points back to where I came
from (which has things I want, like automatic archiving of my
home directory). Also for the record I don't know Python but
I suppose I could learn, if I really have to.

If there is no (easy) way to do it, perhaps a developer could
reply as to whether it might be possible to put it into 3.2?

Thanks.