Best way to determine user's screensize?

[songbird]

Mats Wichmann wrote:
> On 10/30/20 6:47 PM, songbird wrote:
...
>>   do you object to a window being put in the approximate
>> center of the screen?
>
> Absolutely!  I'm fighting that on a system which, after an update,
> insists on opening new terminal windows centered - some recent policy
> change is now doing that instead of where the same thing was placed the
> last time it was open (I assume I'll find the knob for that eventually).
>  As others have said, there's no one-size-fits-all; on a big screen you
> certainly don't want the same things as on a phone, where "take over the
> whole screen" might indeed be the only thing that makes sense.

  to keep a program simple i made it to open in the center.
if i ever get back to it i'll have to figure out how to ask
the windowing system what it wants to do for placement and
then store that location as part of the configuration if the
person moves it.

  i don't use multiple screens yet nor do i mind moving an
item once when i'm starting up, but i could see where if 
there are a lot of windows that it would be annoying to 
have to move all of them.


  songbird