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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sun Apr 22 2012 - 21:46:14 CDT

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Mayne, Christopher G
<cmayne2_at_illinois.edu> wrote:
> VMD-L-ers,
>
> Is there a tcl command to get the current x,y position of the OpenGL display window?  The VMD documentation (http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/ug/node125.html) provides the "display reposition" command to move the window, but doesn't seem to describe how to get the current location.

on what platform?

there are some tricks possible on Linux machines,
but also many Linux machines have window managers
that assume that a user doesn't know what he is doing
and thus ignore or override some commands.

cheers,
   axel.

>
> Thanks,
> Chris 

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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer
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College of Science and Technology
Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.