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Frynio

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Registered: 2016-08-24

Posts: 13

Xfce4 Terminal Position

Hi. I was using serveral distros and I used to have GNOME DE on them. Now some friend convinced me to try Xfce4 and I actually like it. I have a problem though with xfce4-terminal starting always at top left corner. I would really like it to start at my mouse position. I know about --geometry, but I don't want to specify pixels, just want it to start where my mouse pointer is. How can I do it?

mazhar

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From: Sanandaj

Registered: 2016-07-12

Posts: 60

Re: Xfce4 Terminal Position

well i found this, i hope i works:

Settings > Window manager tweaks > Placement > By default, place windows > Under the mouse pointer

although its about all windows not just xfce-terminal

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Frynio

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Registered: 2016-08-24

Posts: 13

Re: Xfce4 Terminal Position

Yes, I've found that too, but still the terminal does open at the top left corner...

mazhar

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From: Sanandaj

Registered: 2016-07-12

Posts: 60

Re: Xfce4 Terminal Position

well that worked for me well. you may have set the geometry at 0,0. try removing geometry setting in terminal preferences

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Frynio

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Registered: 2016-08-24

Posts: 13

Re: Xfce4 Terminal Position

Already resetted the terminal settings (deleted Terminal/terminalrc) but it didn't change my situation

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,648

Re: Xfce4 Terminal Position

Please post the output of the following commands:

pacman -Qi xfwm4
uname -a

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2016-08-24 19:27:12)

Frynio

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Registered: 2016-08-24

Posts: 13

Re: Xfce4 Terminal Position

First:

Name            : xfwm4
Version         : 4.12.3-2
Description     : Xfce window manager
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : http://www.xfce.org/
Licenses        : GPL2
Groups          : xfce4
Provides        : None
Depends On      : libxfce4ui  libwnck  libdrm  hicolor-icon-theme
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : xfwm4-themes
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 2032.00 KiB
Packager        : Evangelos Foutras <evangelos@foutrelis.com>
Build Date      : Sat 07 May 2016 05:01:18 AM UTC
Install Date    : Wed 24 Aug 2016 05:38:24 PM UTC
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

Second:

Linux archlinux 4.7.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 17 08:13:35 CEST 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux

toz

Member

Registered: 2011-10-28

Posts: 513

Re: Xfce4 Terminal Position

Also set "Minimum size of windows to trigger smart placement" to Large (furthest right setting).

Frynio

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Registered: 2016-08-24

Posts: 13

Re: Xfce4 Terminal Position

toz, you da best! Thank you!