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From: Mayne, Christopher G (cmayne2_at_illinois.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 22 2012 - 22:20:56 CDT

Is there a ~consistent way on each os for which I could write and if-then to check for the os? Or is this not a well-supported feature?

Chris

On Apr 22, 2012, at 10:13 PM, "Axel Kohlmeyer" <akohlmey_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Mayne, Christopher G
> <cmayne2_at_illinois.edu> wrote:
>> I'm developing on a Mac, but would like a general solution.
>
> doesn't exist. if you run with the "wrong" window manager
> (i.e. the default in several popular distributions) on Linux
> even the display reposition command has no effect.
>
> and windows is an entirely different story.
>
> axel.
>
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 22, 2012, at 9:46 PM, "Axel Kohlmeyer" <akohlmey_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer
>>> akohlmey_at_gmail.com http://goo.gl/1wk0
>>>
>>> College of Science and Technology
>>> Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.
>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer
> akohlmey_at_gmail.com http://goo.gl/1wk0
>
> College of Science and Technology
> Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.