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I find this a highly annoying "feature" on a wide screen monitor that my mostly used apps - terminal and gedit always open directly under the top-left corner of my screen and I have to drag them to my eye position each and every-time.

I have tried installing the CompizConfig Settings Manager and using the feature to position windows centre, but this has had no effect - the force feature here isn't working for me either:

Window Management -> "place windows" -> Fixed Window Placement -> Windows with fixed positions
example: gedit 200 200 keep-in-work-area-to-yes

I can use e.g. gnome-terminal --geometry=140x50+50+50 for the terminal but this doesn't work for gedit.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Actually, since GNOME v3.30 there is a visible option in GNOME Tweaks, which makes it much easier to enable it:

Just select "Center New Windows" under "Windows".

Actually I found a solution for GNOME without compiz.
You can either use

• 
  this extension if you have gnome-shell < v3.14


• or open dconf and set center-new-windows in org.gnome.mutter to true:
  

The Compiz “place windows” feature works for me. It won’t work if you just use gedit, though. Try title=gedit:

It works for me as expected with Compiz and the Fixed Window Placement -> Windows with fixed positions set to:

Positioned windows: class=Gedit
200 200
keep-in-work-area: no