Windows – Gnome – windows always open top left

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I find this a highly annoying "feature" on a wide screen monitor that my mostly used apps – terminal and gedit always open directly under the top-left corner of my screen and I have to drag them to my eye position each and every-time.

I have tried installing the CompizConfig Settings Manager and using the feature to position windows centre, but this has had no effect – the force feature here isn't working for me either:

Window Management -> "place windows" -> Fixed Window Placement -> Windows with fixed positions
example: gedit 200 200 keep-in-work-area-to-yes

I can use e.g. gnome-terminal –geometry=140×50+50+50 for the terminal but this doesn't work for gedit.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Best Answer

Actually, since GNOME v3.30 there is a visible option in GNOME Tweaks, which makes it much easier to enable it:

GNOME Tweaks with Windows->"Center New Windows" highlighted

Just select "Center New Windows" under "Windows".

Actually I found a solution for GNOME without compiz. You can either use

  • this extension if you have gnome-shell < v3.14
  • or open dconf and set center-new-windows in org.gnome.mutter to true: dconf open with org.gnome.mutter -> center-new-windows
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