Alignment of multiple top-level windows

[Russell Shaw]

Yaroslav Rastrigin wrote:
> Hi, 
> On 29 December 2005 14:56, Russell Shaw wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> Ohh. Sorry, I misunderstood your first post. Could your question be related to session management ?

It's more a matter of asking the WM to guarantee a certain layout of multiple
windows for one application.

> (After all, restoring previously saved desired layout looks like perfect way to achieve your goal)
> (And why free-floating-window manager like IceWM would be unable to position your windows this way (possibly, with overlapping) ?)

That works ok if you have multiple applications, where each application is a single window.