I use this alias for toggling between fullscreen and windowed mode.

alias +fullscreen "fullscreen_01"
alias fullscreen_01 "vid_width 768 ; vid_height 576 ; vid_fullscreen 0 ; vid_restart ; alias -fullscreen fullscreen_02"
alias fullscreen_02 "vid_width 1024 ; vid_height 768 ; vid_fullscreen 1 ; vid_restart ; alias -fullscreen fullscreen_01"

bind F9 "+fullscreen"

This bind is very useful for toggling the screen, but it's annoying to see the window mode shifted to the left hand corner. Everytime, I had to click on the screen and move it to the center to my comfort. Any idea how to make it centers of the screen automatically?

I don't know. But let me know when you find out.

You could try to use devilspie, it sets windows properties as they are created, maybe it triggers on window state changes too.

devilspie are already running on my Ubuntu 7.10

I don't know how to use it, it's running in the background

Actually basic devilspie functionality is sufficient:

- create a file "nex.ds" in "~/devilspie/" (maybe you have to create that dir)
- if you are _not_ using Compiz (I believe it is just called desktop effects in Ubuntu) nex.ds may look like this:

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(if
    (matches (window_class) "nexuiz.*")
    (center)
)

- else:

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(if
    (matches (window_class) "nexuiz.*")
    (geometry "+300+400")
)

The latter solution works in any case but you have to sort out the offset so the window ends up centered yourself.
Have a look here for more information on devilspie.

Works for me. Thanks.

Works for me too thanks!

Although I have 2 workspaces, therefore (center) shifted the Nexuiz to central of both workspaces thus only see half of it on the right - switching to other workspace will result in seeing nexuiz on the left

So i had to adjust my geometry.

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(if
(matches(window_class)"nexuiz*")
(geometry "+130+100")
)


Oh and I should mention this. You need to restart X for it to take effect (CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE)

Thanks

No need to restart the X-server, just restarting devilspie so it can parse the new expression file will suffice