13 Jun
2004
13 Jun
'04
6:02 p.m.
Florian Schmidt wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:41:10 +0100
Steve Harris <S.W.Harris(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
-geometry
commandline to
argument to apps, eg. xclock -geometry
400x400+10+10 you can ommit the
size bit (400x400) if you just want to set position. Giveing -'s for the
position make it relative to the right/bottom edge.
Not all newer apps accept that argument though.
Hmm, shouldn't these apps be considered broken then? the -geometry switch is
an xlib thing and handled transparently if the app passes the xlib.. i suppose some toolkits might do their own
commandline
processing and
then forget to pass stuff on to xlib..
maybe i talk nonsense though.
And maybe not. ;-) It seems like 'qjackctl' studiously ignores the
-geomtry switch. 'QAMix' does it correctly (yay!). 'Timemachine'
actually barfs with 'unknown options -g -e -o -m -e' etc... I'm
starting Hydrogen on a separate 'desktop' to give it more space, so
that one's not an issue.
Is there any way to work around this stuff? Are the window coordinates
hardcoded in 'qjackctl'?
In the meantime, I start my setup, and tweak for a few minutes...
Hopefully inspiration doesn't take a left turn while I'm doing it...
~Jos~