Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 23:37:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Stephane Raimbault <stephane@cybersurf.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Window sizes in X Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970726232348.14149A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <33D8AFA7.167EB0E7@cybersurf.net>
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On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Stephane Raimbault wrote: > Hello, just wondering if there is a way to make the size of windows when > you start a program always come up to a value the user prefers? > > ex: > > I open Netscape and the size of the window is a certain size but I want > the window to be 800x600 on startup of the program. Is there a way to > force the Netscape windows to open at 800x600 rather than its default > size. > > Thank you for your time. > Stephane > There's a geometry switch that sets the size of windows opened. See man xinit. Also man startx for which files X reads when it starts up. For netscape I use an alias for /usr/bin/netscape -geometry 800x600+0+0 which seems to do what I want, although I'm not sure it's right. Annelise
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