Hi. pcb and gschem seem to have its own ideas about size and placement of dialogs. In particular it does not seem to remember most of the parameters. Thus the user has to manually place them time and again. There is a way to work around this until pcb and gschem will finally remember all the positions: The utility devilspie will catch all new windows and manipulate their properties according to config files. A minor drawback is the documentation of devilspie, or rather the lack thereof. Luckily some users wrote Howtos, most notably http://wiki.foosel.net/linux/devilspie
This is the content of the config file, that sends the library dialog of gschem to the very right with maximized height: -------------------8<----------------------------- (if (is (window_name) "Select Component...") (begin (wintype "normal") (geometry "-0-0") (maximize_vertically) (print "gschem library dialog found") ) ) -------------------->8--------------------------- Same trick for pcb: ------------------8<-------------------------- (if (is (window_name) "PCB Library") (begin (wintype "normal") (geometry "-0-0") (maximize_vertically) (print "pcb library dialog found") ) ) ------------------>8-------------------------- Do you think, this trick should go into the wiki? ---<(kaimartin)>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik tel: +49-511-762-2895 Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover fax: +49-511-762-2211 GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Knaak+kmk&op=get _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user