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What desktop do you run? Does your desktop have some kind of automated snap to border kind of stuff turned on. Do you use some compositor? What's the command you use to start the clients, ...

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Sorry for the late reply.

Mint 14 used Mate I think, and Kubuntu uses KDE, if that was what you were refering to. I have never turned on any snap to border feature, usually just left everything on default after fresh install. Also there is no borders close to the center of my screen, which is where the clients appear after I start them.

I don't know what a compositor is, so I don't think I'm using one.

Up until starting this thread I didn't use any commands to start the clients, I was simply clicking/entering exefile.exe a bunch of times. Eventually I started playing around with some xdotool commands and are now able to easily resize the windows properly before logging in, so I'm able to get around the problem. But it still puzzles me every time I click that button to start 11 miniclients and some of them always end up off center a bit compared to the rest. I did some testing, and it seems they are somehow trying to snap/adjust to each other actually, while the windows are created. As you know, it takes like 10 seconds from starting a client to the window actually comes up. Pressing enter on the exefile 6 times quickly and then wait produced this example: astralservices.net/RandomResizing.png

The first client has the right resolution of 1024x768 as usual, but the 5th one has somehow tried to fit the first one within its borders or something. The client in the back has the same size as the 5th, but in the same place as the first. Once one client is resized, the new resolution is saved and subsequent clients starts using it. The remaining clients had the same size and placement as the first.

I have tried changing settings that sounds like snap to border stuff, but nothing seems to change this behavior. It also seems completely random, closing them and starting 6 new clients the same way can produce different results. There is also no snap to border stuff going on elsewhere, if I move the clients againt each other afterwards, no snapping or resizing happens. They all seem to get the proper size If I start them one by one, waiting the 10 seconds each time for the window to appear before I start another one.

It seems there is something weird going on when multiple windows are created at the same time, and they somehow end up affecting each other. Maybe I should try to find a way to test it with something else than eve clients. I'm using Kubuntu 13.04 now btw.

I played around with this a bit, and it was certainly easier to manage window sizes. But when I realized I was unable to properly minimize the clients using this method, it became unfeasable for me. When I minimize the clients, they use up to 50% less CPU, and I keep 11 of my clients minimized most of the time, saving my CPU lots of work.