<p>Is there a way to specify a child's initial window position in Qt?</p>

<p>I have an application that runs on Linux and Windows and it looks like the default behavior of Qt lets the Window Manager determine the placement of the child windows.   </p>

<p>On Windows, this is in the center of the screen the parent is on which seems reasonable.   </p>

<p>On Linux, in GNOME (metacity) it is always in the upper left-hand corner which is annoying.  I can't find any window manager preferences for metacity that allow me to control window placement so I would like to override that behavior.</p>

Qt Widget Geometry
Call the move(x, y) method on the child window before show(). The default values for x and y are 0 so that's why it appears in the upper left-hand corner.
You can also use the position of the parent window to compute a relative position for the child.