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From: Chris Harrison (charris5_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sun Apr 22 2012 - 23:00:26 CDT

Chris,
Do you want a solution that lets 'you' figure out the coordinates, or
one that lets your script/code figure out the coordinates on-the-fly?

Best,
Chris

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Mayne, Christopher G
<cmayne2_at_illinois.edu> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer
>> akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
>>
>> College of Science and Technology
>> Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.
> 

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Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
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