I need new windows to open where they closed in Linux Mint Mate 20.3

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In Linux Mint Mate 20.3 I need new windows to open on the desktop where they were closed…
I’m running Linux Mint Mate 20.3 in ten notebooks on three desks… I prefer LMM-20.3 because it’s super user friendly, customizable, secure, smooth, clean, quick, and there isn’t any noise, clutter, nor animation which can kill a creative writer’s roll in a flash… It’s just a good OS for authors and quiet… I’ve tried all the Linux OS’s to the tune of thousands of wasted hours, and hundreds of wasted CD’s… I’ve settled on LMM-20.3, but there’s a little glitch… In most other Mint versions new windows will open the same size where they were closed, but it doesn’t happen in LMM-20.3… The only options for new windows positioning are open centered, or open on the top left of the screen…

Is there a way to add this needed feature by adding a bit of software from another Ubuntu or Mint OS to this LMM-20.3 OS…?

I asked in other Mint and Ubuntu forums… They don’t have a clue…
I’ve tried several odd desktop managers… Nothing worked… They only wrecked the OS…

The newer versions do it but I boycott the newer versions of Linux Mint, as they are definitely not user friendly, they fight the user, they are cluttered with silly desktop animation, the new Firefox and their updates seem to be full of malware and bullying… I can’t use them… Into the incinerator went all their CD’s…

When I install a Linux Mint Mate 20.3 ISO, I install without a net-connection, double encrypted, (install & home-file)…
At first boot I block Welcome Screen, Update Manager, Notices, and all the visible boxes in Control Panel’s Startup Applications, and go to Synaptic to completely uninstall: Rsync, Firefox, Transmission, HexChat, UFW, and Bluetooth, then add Bleachbit 4.2 from a flash, open it without a net-connection, and block its updates, then run Bleachbit hard… Reboot… Change Sources to a friendly university, and add Portmaster, then Librewolf… I boycott updates 100%… My many notebooks have their net-cards removed, so nothing touches my private data: music editing, video editing, pix editing, science writing, art work, activism, notes… I have 50 external hard drives with all my data on them in duplicate so I Can’t lose my data… Some hard drives are stored with trusted people in other cities…

Repair shops give me their retired computers for free to make notebooks for children’ hospitals for terminally ill kids for free… All the junk electronics goes to the hobbyist metals recycler for free… The only computer I run on the Net is this piece of junk I pulled off the recyclables shelf, and installed a garbage hd with bad sectors… I don’t care what happens to this garbage internet-book… It’s probably worth only about $2 scrap in precious metals, a much as a chocolate bar… If the OS twitches wrongly, out goes the hd to be reinstalled on the utility desk, and in goes one of the 50 preinstalled LMM-20.3 notebook hd’s… With these newish Dells with the hard drive ports on the side I can change a hd in 3-seconds with a tweezers or fine needle-nose pliers, and am back on the Net start to finish in less than two minutes…

How can I force new windows to open where they were closed in Linux Mint Mate 20.3…?

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Hello,

you may want to try:

$ sudo apt install devilspie

For more details read here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Devilspie

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Thanks for your effort…
I tried ‘devilspie’… It destroyed the operating system, forcing me to reinstall the ISO… It was weird: A search found devilspie installed, but it wasn’t showing in any usable software applications lists…

Have you tried LMM-20.3…?
Have you compared LMM-20.3 to the newer versions…? Have you experienced the nasty mess the newer versions are, and experienced first hand how all the security has been removed or neutralized from the OS and from the new Firefox…? If you haven’t, you might want to see the war on Linux by acquiring the LMM-20.3 ISO from the ‘archives’ link in a google search, and test it out… Then try the newest version of Mint… You will quickly experience the evil that’s been done to the newer versions by the devils who are murdering Linux to kill the competition, to cash-in Linux… To them ‘free’ is illegal… To them: life, love, truth, and free are the worst evils…

Maybe devilspie is for newer versions, or for different distro bases…? I don’t know…?

A tip:
My netbook was having lots of gateway 504 and 503 troubles, so I switched hard drives to a fresh new install hard drive… Suddenly all the gateway troubles vanished… Seems ‘gateway 504’ is a computer virus… Is there a firewall that might block the gateway bug…?

Another Tip:
I’ve been in several forums that were seriously slow and glitchy, so our members edited all the URl HTTP links to not be direct links but just referrals, then all the forum troubles suddenly ceased…
I highly recommend that all URLS posted in the form be modified/edited to not be direct link URLS, so they don’t infect the forum with the new malwares… The East’s WW3 is here now, and progressively going global, and soon it will attack the Internet and peoples computers and phones big time, shutting everything down, and destroying peoples files, crashing the global economy, hurting a lot of lives… It’s a good plan for everyone to make an external hard drive back-up of all their precious computer files ASAP before the war hits the Internet, so you don’t lose your years of valued files… Make this week ‘my backup my files week’… Buy a couple solid state external hard drives, and fill them up while you still can… Be safe, not sorry…
It’s like way back when I first heard of ‘ransomware’… I rushed out and bought a case of CD’s, and immediately made several backups of all my computer data… Good thing too, because a week later my computer got hit by the Storm Virus which totally destroyed the hard drive… Wasn’t a big problem, as I had three fresh backups of all my data… I lost only a downloaded girlie pix, two copies of sent emails, and an old tower hard drive, all replaceable…
Do so get a ‘Protonmail email account’… It’s the best of the best… It doesn’t get any safer and more honest and private than Proton…