Is there a way for Pidgin to stagger window placement when not using tabbed ims?

Ethan Blanton elb at pidgin.im
Sun Mar 9 11:18:52 EDT 2008


Luke Schierer spake unto us the following wisdom:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:28:51AM -0400, Greg S wrote:
> > I prefer to not use tabbed IMs, bad experiences sending the wrong message to
> > the wrong person. But is there a way for Pidgin to stagger each new IM
> > window, instead of stacking them all on top of each other? Thank you.
> 
> Pidgin assumes that the window manager will handle window placement.

At least in older versions, it did indeed place windows directly on
top of each other.  I thought we had convinced Sean that was a bad
idea, though...

Ethan

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