[H-GEN] How do X Windows know where to pop up?

[Greg Black]

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Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:

> Incidentally I could just *kill* the ever-so-clever GTK folks who
> decided they didn't want to support pesky things like --geometry.  As
> if X application didn't have enough consistency problems already.

Wow, thanks for that little bit of information.  I had been
working up to learning GTK as a chance to move away from the
rather dated Tk stuff I've been using for what seems like
decades -- but stupid shit like that is a real show stopper as
far as I'm concerned.

What are they smoking?

Greg

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