[tlug] Gazing up and to the left

[Charles Muller <cmuller-lst@example.com>]

I was noticing during the past few months that I was developing a 
tendency to gaze up and to left wherever I was--at home--in the 
street, in the bar, whatever. I was even walking behind a pretty 
girl the other day, and instead of looking at her, I found myself 
gazing up and to the left.

So I went to my eye doctor, and he said (translating from the 
original Japanese, of course):

"I guess you are a Linux user who has recently changed all of his 
screens to '24, and all of your X applications are starting up in 
the upper left hand corner of the screen."

Amazed at this, I asked the good doctor what could be done to remedy 
the situation.

He said "man X".

I followed the Sensei's recommendation, and finding something about 
--geometry, was able to succeed in starting some (but not all) X 
apps up in other places than the upper left corner on a case-by-case 
basis. But the Sensei can't help me any further than this. And while 
there were examples on the web, nothing that goes beyond the man page.

All seriousness aside, I'd like to figure out how to apply a 
permanent settings to start (to begin with) Firefox and Thunderbird 
in the middle of the screen on a permanent basis. Emacs is already 
no problem.

Has anyone else tried to deal with this?

Chuck

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