Comment 20 for bug 723878

I have been trying to use --geometry to e.g. get a gnome-terminal to open flush-left as it behaves when snapped to the left by dragging. Even if the launcher is not open, it will always leave space there. Likewise, playing with place windows plugin fixed settings doesn't seem to achieve this. From a design point of view, it seems inconsistent that the snap action ignores the launcher whilst other placement actions pretend it is showing even when it is not. An example problem resulting from this is that you cannot startup an applicatiojn snapped left.