Placing application windows on the screen in a script?

[Taavi]

Hi,

is it possible to place application windows on the screen as opening them from a script?

If I for example want to open leafpad and xdvi windows side by side is there any way to do it? So that I don't need to drag them after they are opened.

Taavi

[disciple]

There is a standard --geometry option that you can use when you start them.

[Taavi]

Thanks,

I had -geometry option in my script for xdvi's window size but I didn't notice I can get the position too in there. So now I got it like this:

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xdvi -expertmode 0 -watchfile 1 -cr orange -xoffset -0.1 -yoffset -0.1 -geometry 400x550-5+10  "$FILE".dvi

Geometry doesn't work for leafpad but this is enough, now those windows open side by side.