Sorry to answer myself...
Alas, I must use Windows Xp as well... Anyway I have switched since about two months to having the taskbar at the top of the screen, meaning that when I create a new patch it is placed at absolute 0,0 "absolute" with the title-bar behind the taskbar (even with "always on top" option). Any tcl/tk guru know of a hack in the pd.tk file to have the new windows positioned at 0,0 "relative" to the taskbar or alternatively just sligtly offset down?
I had been playing with the first wm geometry $name $geometry call in pdtk_canvas_new and had overlooked there was another one some 15 lines down, so that changing the second one to something like wm geometry $name 300x250+0+35 seems to improve things.. but I'm sure it's terribly hacky, breaks something else and not at all elegant - i.e. tk gurus' wisdom still appreciated :)
Thanks, Lorenzo
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