From: Mayne, Christopher G (cmayne2_at_illinois.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 22 2012 - 22:08:59 CDT

I'm developing on a Mac, but would like a general solution.

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
>
>
>
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>
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