[Tfug] FVWM and Firefox

[Claude Rubinson]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:09:51PM -0700, earljviolet at deserthowler.com wrote:
> I am trying to get Firefox to open at a specific location on opening FVWM.
>  Emacs and Xterm open where I want them to on screen but when I use
> 
> + I Exec /opt/firefox/firefox -geometry +380+160
> 
> firefox ignores the geometry statement.  Is firefox one of those programs
> that doesn't behave will with FVWM?

Firefox doesn't support a geometry parameter.  But fvwm can take care
of it for you.  Just add a Style statement to your fvwm config.
Something like the following will do the trick:

    Style "firefox" +Xpos+Ypos

See fvwm's man page for all the details.

Claude