window placement="at the centre of the screen" ignored

[neverdimed]

in windows manager tweaks i selected "at the centre of the screen" on the placement tab but windows are not opened centred. I have another machine running MX where it works however. I give the QSI for the machine where it is not working, thanks

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System:    Kernel: 5.10.0-23-amd64 [5.10.179-1] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-23-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.18.0 vt: 7 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.3_x64 Wildflower January 15  2023 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: LENOVO product: 10MLS0FW00 v: ThinkCentre M910s serial: <filter> 
           Chassis: type: 3 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: LENOVO model: 3106 v: SDK0J40697 WIN 3305116502117 serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO 
           v: M1AKT52A date: 12/24/2021 
CPU:       Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-6500 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Skylake-S family: 6 
           model-id: 5E (94) stepping: 3 microcode: F0 cache: L2: 6 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 25599 
           Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled 
           Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS 
           Type: spec_store_bypass 
           mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: IBRS, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling, 
           PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected 
           Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
           Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 
           chip-ID: 8086:1912 class-ID: 0300 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver: 
           loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
           s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
           Monitor-1: DP-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 82 size: 598x336mm (23.5x13.2") 
           diag: 686mm (27") 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 530 (SKL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a2f0 class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.0-23-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e v: kernel port: f040 
           bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b7 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           IF-ID-1: wg-mullvad state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 462.05 GiB used: 65.09 GiB (14.1%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Emtec model: X150 240GB size: 223.57 GiB 
           block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> 
           rev: 5.0 scheme: MBR 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 model: Valuetech 256GB size: 238.47 GiB block-size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1219 
           scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 230.22 GiB size: 225.54 GiB (97.97%) used: 65.09 GiB (28.9%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 282 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat 
           dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sdb3 
           maj-min: 8:19 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 30.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 2076 lib: 1023 flatpak: 0 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/librewolf.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://deb.librewolf.net bullseye main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://nl.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
Info:      Processes: 221 Uptime: 1d 2h 20m wakeups: 4 Memory: 15.51 GiB used: 2.12 GiB (13.6%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 
           alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: UEFI

[CharlesV]

This wont be helpful I am afraid, but I have only seen a select group of applications follow this properly. Almost all of the MX tools do, and a few of the simple xfce tools do, but the rest flat out have never worked that properly my machines.

I thought it was my 3, 4 or 5 monitor setup messing it up, however it doesnt work on my laptops, nor test machines either.

[MXRobo]

Just a guess or stab at it, does the size slider above it help, or is the window(s) in question small?
++EDIT++ above the settings.

[CharlesV]

For me this did not change anything. (I tried small, large, middle ;-/ )

[Jakob77]

The slider also works for me.

CharlesV

Did you try to change the size of the window you want to open.?

[CharlesV]

Yes, doesnt make any difference

[MXRobo]

CharlesV, I simply assumed that you tried it, but I thought it may have been changed or something and that it might work for the OP maybe/perhaps/possibly….

[CharlesV]

@MXRobo and all good things to check too! Please dont let me stop or dissuade you from trying, I think your ideas and help are grea!.

I almost didnt say anything as I dont want to sound off on it.. In-fact, I have walked back just now and tried again - hoping I missed something :)

[neverdimed]

this suggested script is from 2017 but i will try it when i have time: https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=11558

[Jakob77]

this suggested script is from 2017 but i will try it when i have time: https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=11558

I think that is a smart place to look but the script is a little old.
I would ask about his advice first.
ToZ is still there friendly and better than ever.