I've been messing around with a new laptop at
work (the hinges on the old one broke), and
along the way, I'm reminded of something that's
bugged me for a while. Is there any way to
tell rio to move a window that's not manual
(i.e. using the mouse)? Is there something
in p9p equivalent to opening a control file
and writing a command into it, or alternatively
is there an app that will generate a ConfigureRequest
event on behalf of a specific window?

If you're interested in the context, here it
is. The p9p apps and good old fashioned,
well-behaved X apps support command-line
arguments to establish the initial window
placement. But the ill-behaved apps (e.g.
pretty much anything built on gtk) seem
to assume some other strange policy. For
example, no matter what I do firefox starts
in the upper left corner of the screen.
By contrast pidgin always starts where it
was placed last. But neither of these
behaviors are what I want. I want to
specify the placement in my .xinitrc and
to have the specific placement be based
on my network address, so that I start
different apps at home vs. at work.

Any thoughts?

BLS