Figure Position

[Kristen Richter]

Hello all,

I am attempting to apply the position property to several figures in order them 
to tile them across the screen.  After reading the online Matlab
manual, it seems like the appropriate commands are

figure('Position',[left bottom width height])
or even set(figure(#),'Position',[left bottom width height])

However, using these commands in Octave only produces a figure that auto-tiles 
with my command window.  When I query get(figure(#),'Position'), I get my input 
back, as if the figure created was actually at this position. And I've 
double-triple-checked the units I'm using.

Once, in my harried quest to get this working, I managed to change the offset 
of the auto-tiling, but reviewing over my command history, I cannot seem to 
reproduce this.

I've spent some time searching wikis for problems other people have posted and 
reading a little over the archives (since Jan-09) of this mailing list and 
haven't found anything similar to what I am experiencing, though I understand 
that Octave and gnuplot may be unaware of any resizing or change in position 
that I do with my mouse.  I'm not sure if this is an area where development for 
Octave hasn't reached, but the 'Position' property seems like a commonly used 
handle.

Any light that could be shed on this situation would be greatly appreciated.
And I'm running the latest version of octave, 3.2.0, compiled in Ubuntu without 
arpack (couldn't get this working).

-Kristen