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loadlover

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Registered: 2017-05-10

Posts: 103

[SOLVED] KDE Plasma 5 - Setting Konsole's screen position when...

Hi all,

In KDE Plasma 5, I'm attempting to get Konsole to appear in the same screen position regardless of how it is invoked, or indeed, under what circumstances.

With this in mind, I made the following changes to Konsole's .desktop file:

[Desktop Entry]
...
Exec=konsole --geometry 1280x864+320+216
...

[Desktop Action NewWindow]
...
Exec=konsole --geometry 1280x864+320+216
...

[Desktop Action NewTab]
...
Exec=konsole --new-tab --geometry 1280x864+320+216
...

Still, however, if Konsole is invoked using the right-click menu & Actions > Open Terminal Here, its screen position is not consistent. Can you help?

Regards, Loady

PS: I'd also welcome more general comments about getting apps to appear in consistent positions -- for example, getting apps like Kate to appear in the position they were last used, and policies about opening a couple of instances of the same app etc.

Last edited by loadlover (2017-08-17 14:22:16)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,714

Re: [SOLVED] KDE Plasma 5 - Setting Konsole's screen position when...

You are doing these at the wrong place. Konsole is not managing your physical window (well it can pass the geometry hint, but this is simply a request to the window manager), KWin is. Right click into your window bar and set "Further actions" -> "Specific settings for this program" -> "go wild". In this particular you case you will want to look at the position and size and the initial placement directives (a bit further down in that dialog). Be sure to choose "Enforce" in the respective dropdowns. You can of course do this with every program KWin provides the window decoration for.

Last edited by V1del (2017-08-16 22:31:22)

loadlover

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Registered: 2017-05-10

Posts: 103

Re: [SOLVED] KDE Plasma 5 - Setting Konsole's screen position when...

That's the charm.

Many thanks:)