Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:56:21 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: starting firefox3 with defined geometry Message-ID: <20120110085620.GA1186@tiny> In-Reply-To: <20120110092554.d3001ca5.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20120110074504.GA1101@tiny> <20120110092554.d3001ca5.freebsd@edvax.de>
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El día Tuesday, January 10, 2012 a las 09:25:54AM +0100, Polytropon escribió: > Answer: Yes, but it's not as easy as it could have been. > > Unlike nearly every other X11 program, notably the "old" > and "outdated" ones, Firefox does _not_ seem to support > the _standard_ -geometry WxH+X+Y parameter. > > However, you can define the window width and height > with command line parameters: > > % firefox -width 1024 -height 768 does not work with firefox-3.5.18 (from ports) on 9-CURRENT; > ... > There is a "workaround" for the lack of standard > geometry support: You could have Firefox execute > JavaScript instructions at startup > > window.moveTo(100, 100); > window.resizeTo(1024, 768); will try this in the page source; > Those can even be provided on the command line. > However, that's a bad excuse for not supporting > what users expect working for 30 years. yes! > > UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) > > PDP-11 or K1600? Oh, and EC1056 here (OS/ES SVM OP1). :-) both, PDP-11 and the clone; have you ever driven a UNIX by punch cards? does PSU ring a bell? http://cvs.laladev.de/index.html/P8000/WEGA/contrib/ingres/dbs/tmp/ing_Vortrag?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup matthias -- Matthias Apitz e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5
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