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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sun Apr 22 2012 - 22:12:58 CDT

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.