[Pkg-games-ubuntu] [Bug 358391] Re: Window games should start in the centre of the screen

[Jon Dowland]

My comments: definitely a window manager issue, although maybe some
games could provide "hints" to the WM. The concept of "centered" doesn't
even make sense in some environments (tiled awesome, ion2, ion3, etc.).
If a game does try to position itself centrally, it would no doubt
suffer from many bugs relating to what "centre" means in multi-screen
environments, etc.

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Window games should start in the centre of the screen
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/358391
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Bug description:
To reporduce:
Start a game
Note that (most) games will start in the upper-left corner of the screen, which is not very visually appealing.

Expected behaviour:
Games should start at the centre of the screen.

Games which need to be fixed:
Alien Blaster
Amphetamine
Anagramarama
Atomic Tanks
Atomix
Battleball
BilliardGL
Biloba
Black Jack (partially)
Blobwars
Bomberclone
Bos Wars
Burger Space
Defendguin
Einstein (when in Window mode clearly)
Emilia Pinball
Five or More
Four-in-a-Row
FreeCell
FreeDoom
glChess
Gnometris
GNUjump
Gravity Wars
Gunroar
Hex-a-Hop
lagno
Klotski
Majjongg (solitaire)
Mines
Multiplication Puzzle
Nibbles
Pacman (sort of... it's close to centre, but not there)
Pathological
Pingus
Robots
Same Gnome
Singularity
Slingshot
Spider
Sudoku
Tali
Tetravex
Ur-Quan Masters
xConq
xDigger
ZBlast