[PD] Control X,Y position of main Pd window at startup?

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Mon Jul 23 23:36:54 CEST 2007


Thanks for scoping this out.  I added this to Pd-extended so that  
it's easy to change.  Ideally this would be a preference, but there  
needs to be some kind of preference framework to handle things like  
this.

.hc

On Jul 23, 2007, at 12:11 PM, Bjoern Hartmann wrote:

> I'll answer my own question -
> in file pd.tk, at the end of the "main window set up" section,  
> after lines
>
> wm title . "Pd"
> . configure -menu .mbar -width 200 -height 150
>
> add the following line to control main window position at startup:
>
> wm geometry . +x+y
>
> where (x,y) is the offset in pixels from the top left corner of the
> screen. So "wm geometry . +0+0" puts the pd main window in the top
> left corner of the leftmost screen.
>
> The relevant Tk manual page is:
> http://tmml.sourceforge.net/doc/tk/wm.html
>
>
>
> -- 
> Bjoern Hartmann
> Human Computer Interaction Group
> Stanford University
>
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