[MPlayer-users] A Bug? -geometry not working with xinerama

[Dean S. Messing]

I'm trying to play two side-by-side MPlayer
windows for "A-B" comparisons of some research
results.  Window placement should be automatic
using the -geometry flag.

But I'm running xinerama.  When MPlayer first comes
up I can see its window "flash" at the right place.
But then it immediately moves to the upper left
corner of either screen 0 or screen 1 (depending
on the setting of -xineramascreen).

Is this a bug? (I didn't see it in the BUGS
section of the docs.)  Or is it just an problem
between keyboard and chair?

If it _is_ a bug, is they any way to
automatically (with a script) move the window
to the right place?  I mean, once it comes up
in the wrong place, is there a way to send
commands to the Window Manager (KDE 3.1) via a
shell script to have it move the window to the
right location?

I ask because I want to write a demonstration
script that puts up a sequence of A-B
comparisions one after the other, and I don't
want to have to fiddle with the mouse, moving
windows about on the screen, for each
comparision.

Thanks.
                              Dean S. Messing
                              Display Algorithms & Visual Optimization Lab
                              Information Systems Technologies Dept.
                              Sharp Laboratories of America
                      E-Mail: deanm at sharplabs.com

P.S. A quick answer to the above will be _greatly_ appreciated.
     I must (if possible) solve this problem this afternoon. I leave for
     Japan in the morning where the demos will be shown.  Thanks again!