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# Positioning Rofi on the monitor
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In the current theme format you set these properties on the `window` widget.
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The first, position, determines where **rofi** is placed on the monitor, the
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second what point of the **rofi** window connects there. This sounds
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complicated, but it ain't.
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## position setting
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The position setting determines the place of the window on the monitor.
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The position setting supports the following values:
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* north
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* northeast
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* northwest
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* south
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* southeast
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* southwest
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* east
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* west
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* center
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This is depicted in the diagram below:
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![positions](anchors.svg)
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## anchor setting
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The anchor sets what point of the **rofi** window is placed at the specified *position*.
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The *anchor* settings supports the same values as the *position* setting.
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If you want the middle of the **rofi** window to be always located at the center of the monitor set both *position* and
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*anchor* to `center`.
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If the **rofi** window resizes, its center will stay at the center.
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If you set the *anchor* to `north` the top of the **rofi** window is at the center of the monitor, and the window will grow
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down.
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If you set the *anchor* and *position* to `south`, **rofi** is located at the bottom center and the window grows up.
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> Note that if you set the *anchor* to `south` and the *position* to `north` the **rofi** window will be placed above
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> the monitor and might not be visible.
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> In another blog post we will explain how the dynamic sizing behaviour of **rofi** can be tweaked or disabled.
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So the following theme setting will place the top of the **rofi** window in the center of the monitor:
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```css
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window {
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position: center;
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anchor: north;
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}
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```
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As depicted here, RED is the position (center of screen), GREEN is the position on **rofi** window (north):
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![positions](example-pos.png)
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> Quick hint, if you want to quickly test out changes to the theme, without editing the file, run **rofi** like:
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```bash
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rofi -show run -theme-str "window { position: center; anchor: north;}"
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```
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