(JWM) Always have window open centered

[bigpup]

MochiMoppel provided this info. (full credit)
Original post:
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To have windows open always centered on desktop.

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<Group>
<Option>centered</Option>
</Group>

into /root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal (e.g. right before the closing </JWM> tag), then open console and run

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jwm -restart

Note that this will center every new window.

[Grey]

Note that this will center every new window.

It is advisable to add to this info that user can do this not for all windows, but specify the desired program whose window will be centered. To do this, you also need to specify the name that is used to run.
For example, for a "naughty" SNES emulator (Snes9x GTK version) that keeps trying to appear on the left side of the screen:

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<Group><Name>snes9x-gtk</Name><Option>centered</Option></Group>

[MochiMoppel]

@bigpup I appreciate your efforts to collect useful information from forum threads and add them to the HOW-TO section, but please, when you do then always, always provide a link to the originating thread. This will create an audit-trail and give readers a chance to understand the context and add own comments to the originating thread.

If you would have done this it would be clear that I just answered the request of a user but that I do not recommend this tweak:

I understand that it can be useful for *some* windows, e.g. alerts, but for all? You'll constantly have to drag them "out of the way" so that they don't get obscured by the next window piled on top of it.

[bigpup]

Added link to first post.