Why? Because it seems like a basic setting, and it would be trivial to implement as a preference. This seems (to me) like just what preferences are for, configuring the basic environment of Pd.

Thank you for the tip on the gui plugin, Iohannes; I will use that.

Phil

From: IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig@iem.at Subject: Re: [PD] size and position of PD window Message-ID: 0eeb6fa9-e173-2afc-59ca-a85dd6c2009b@iem.at

On 4/14/21 4:17 PM, Philip Stone via Pd-list wrote:

This is something that I manually adjust in the Wish code every time I upgrade Pd. It would be very nice to have it be a configurable setting in

Preferences.

why?? and why is there no feature-request on https://bugs.puredata.info?

one possible answer to the second question is, that I (yes me) would probably close such a feature-request immediately, on the grounds that you can implement this with a trivial gui-plugin:

put a file named "mypdwindowgeometry-plugin.tcl" (the base-name does not matter but it *must* end with "-plugin.tcl") with the following content into your Pd-searchpath (without the backticks):

if {[winfo exists .pdwindow]} {
        wm geometry .pdwindow  =538x300+0+458
}

whenever you start Pd, this GUI plugin will move the window to the selected place. no patching of Pd required. works on all OSs (not tested).

you could even reduce the plugin to just the "wm geometry ..." line.

i guess writing this plugin is about the same amount of typing as a "configurable setting" (provided this setting is text-based and not just "remember my current position").

mgffst IOhannes

? what i would wish for is that the Pd window opened up on the currently active monitor, rather than my left-most monitor, where i usually have a full-screen editor running that likes to hide my Pd)