gtkWindowMove {RGtk2} | R Documentation

## gtkWindowMove

### Description

Asks the window manager to move `window` to the given position. Window managers are free to ignore this; most window managers ignore requests for initial window positions (instead using a user-defined placement algorithm) and honor requests after the window has already been shown.

### Usage

    gtkWindowMove(object, x, y)

### Arguments

``object`` | a `GtkWindow`
``x`` | X coordinate to move window to
``y`` | Y coordinate to move window to

### Details

Note: the position is the position of the gravity-determined reference point for the window. The gravity determines two things: first, the location of the reference point in root window coordinates; and second, which point on the window is positioned at the reference point.

By default the gravity is `GDK_GRAVITY_NORTH_WEST`, so the reference point is simply the `x`, `y` supplied to `gtkWindowMove`. The top-left corner of the window decorations (aka window frame or border) will be placed at `x`, `y`. Therefore, to position a window at the top left of the screen, you want to use the default gravity (which is `GDK_GRAVITY_NORTH_WEST`) and move the window to 0,0.

To position a window at the bottom right corner of the screen, you would set `GDK_GRAVITY_SOUTH_EAST`, which means that the reference point is at `x` + the window width and `y` + the window height, and the bottom-right corner of the window border will be placed at that reference point. So, to place a window in the bottom right corner you would first set gravity to south east, then write: `gtk_window_move (window, gdkScreenWidth - window_width, gdkScreenHeight - window_height)` (note that this example does not take multi-head scenarios into account).

The Extended Window Manager Hints specification at http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/wm-spec (http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/wm-spec) has a nice table of gravities in the "implementation notes" section.

The `gtkWindowGetPosition` documentation may also be relevant.

### Author(s)

Derived by RGtkGen from GTK+ documentation

[Package RGtk2 version 2.20.36.3 Index]