Alignment of multiple top-level windows

[Russell Shaw]

Yaroslav Rastrigin wrote:
> Hi,
> On 28 December 2005 21:09, Russell Shaw wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>How can i enforce the relative arrangement of multiple top-level
>>X windows in an ICCCM compliant way? I want this arrangement of
>>three windows on startup:
> 
> Script or C ?

C using Xlib only.

> Which window manager/DE do you use ?

IceWM.

> Generally, you want to find IDs of respective toplevel windows (with xprop/xwininfo, f.e.) and use
> wmctrl to position these windows in NETWM-compliant way.

wmctrl seems to be a way for a user to do laying out of windows. I want the application
to get a guarantee from the wm that it can set its relative window layout on startup.

http://sweb.cz/tripie/utils/wmctrl/