Showing results for October 10, 2013 - The Old New Thing

Professor Hubert Alyea would be 110 years old today, if he were still among us. (He passed away in 1996 at the ripe age of 93.) LIFE magazine called him the science teacher you wish you had for his engaging (and often explosive) chemistry demonstrations. He was called an "international grand master of lecture demonstrations" by Bassam Shakhashir...

We saw some time ago how the window manager decides where to place a newly-created window if you pass the values when creating the window. But what if you want to filter the values first? If you pass an explicit upper left corner but pass for the width and height, then the bottom right corner will be down near the bottom right corner of the scre...