On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 05:03:24PM +0200, Rainer Peter Feller wrote: > > > On the line "xterm -g 80x40+0+0 &", what is "-g" for? TIA > same as "xterm -geometry 80x40+0+0 &" > and yes it is not documented ...
Sure it is. It may not be jumping out at you, but it isn't something that one cannot find with 5 minutes of looking, which was my point. If you haven't a clue after reading a manpage (or searching for a string and not finding it) then you look at the "See Also" section. In xterm(1) the see also has X(7). In there a search for -g keeps popping up a bunch of geometry examples which use the same format of NxN+N-N. Still not fully convinced -g and -geometry are the same? Then you can try the LFS search archives which returns no useful info (funny that no one has asked this question before...). Google, however, finds a page that has a header like this: UNIXBasics: Configuring X: What are all those dotfiles for ... Hrmm. Looks promising. Let's take a gander (the actual URI is http://www.tldp.org/linuxfocus/English/March1998/article24.html) Searching through the page for -g gives me this: "Also notice the -g options on most commands, this is the geometry option that is available for many X programs. When used the geometry options species size and location of a program as..." [sic] It continues on in more depth from there. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
