Window location

[John Ralls]

> On Sep 19, 2017, at 7:47 AM, Matthew Pounsett <matt at conundrum.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> I work in a bit of an edge case, in that I have a very large desktop (just
> shy of 7k pixels wide, over 1.5 meters of physical distance).  The main
> gnucash window seems to save its location and always open where it was last
> closed.  This is awesome.  However, nearly every other window (I think
> probably every single other window, but I'm allowing that maybe there's
> something I haven't noticed) opens at the 0,0 desktop coordinate (top
> left).  This is way out of my eye line.  And yes, I'm aware this is a first
> world problem of the highest order.  :)
> 
> Is this a problem anyone else even notices?  If not, I'm fine to suck it up
> and deal, but it would be a huge convenience to me if gnucash was able to
> save the locations of other windows, or alternatively, open them in the
> vicinity of the parent window.
> 
> My C knowledge is fairly rudimentary, but I'm a competent programmer in a
> few other languages.  I'd be happy to help out with a feature if that seems
> like a thing I could reasonably help with, or if the core team doesn't
> think it's high priority enough to put on the future feature list.

Yeah, it happens on my dual-monitor Mac as well.

For most of the cases it’s a matter of calling “gtk_dialog_set_transient_for()” to the parent window before calling gtk_dialog_run(). I’d think that would be a pretty straightforward project for you. 

Regards,
John Ralls