From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 16:37:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96B4816A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:37:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2964A43D3F for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:37:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i97GbJh0046517; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 09:37:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i97GbHY8087215; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 09:37:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i97GbGjL087214; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 09:37:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 09:37:16 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Aaron Siegel Message-ID: <20041007163716.GB87134@thought.org> References: <20041007073658.GA45887@thought.org> <200410070733.23959.aj@siegel-tech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200410070733.23959.aj@siegel-tech.net> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNOME questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:37:22 -0000 On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 07:33:21AM -0600, Aaron Siegel wrote: > Hello > > The xterms can be sized using .Xdefaults in your home directory. Read the man > page for xterm. This should, but not always, set the size of your xterm > independent of the window manger you are running, KDE, Gnome, FVWM,..... > I already have a number of defaults set for my xterms in ~/.Xdefaults. What I want to do is have K xterms/workspace, have them display by default when Gnome is instantiated-- have a couple with pointsize at --12- and others at --14- anchored at +N-M coordinates. Hm, maybe I can symlink xterm -> xterm1 and have different sizes, fonts, &c in ~/.Xdefaults. gary > > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix