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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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