From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 10 08:56:02 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEF9B106564A for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:56:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms16-1.1blu.de (ms16-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CA868FC1F for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:56:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [89.204.137.9] (helo=tiny.Sisis.de) by ms16-1.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RkXUu-0007Al-8e; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:56:00 +0100 Received: from tiny.Sisis.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tiny.Sisis.de (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q0A8uM2M001223; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:56:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by tiny.Sisis.de (8.14.5/8.14.3/Submit) id q0A8uLll001222; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:56:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: tiny.Sisis.de: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:56:21 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20120110085620.GA1186@tiny> References: <20120110074504.GA1101@tiny> <20120110092554.d3001ca5.freebsd@edvax.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20120110092554.d3001ca5.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT r226986 (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Originating-IP: 89.204.137.9 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: starting firefox3 with defined geometry X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:56:02 -0000 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 and "outdated" ones, Firefox does _not_ seem to support 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 - 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