From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 26 23:37:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA19773 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 23:37:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (root@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA19768 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 23:37:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA14245; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 23:37:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 23:37:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Stephane Raimbault cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Window sizes in X In-Reply-To: <33D8AFA7.167EB0E7@cybersurf.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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