Ronald Florence wrote: > I thought I read in the documentation that newer versions of LyX (I'm > using Lyx-1.2.1) recognized the -geometry command-line argument and the > Lyx*geometry entry in ./.Xdefaults. Mine seems not to, unless I've > gotten the syntax wrong. When I put > > Lyx*geometry: 720x900+283-15 > > in .Xdefaults, Lyx opens in the center of the screen with a window that > is about 720x450. > > If I put lyx.height and lyx.width parameters in .Xdefaults, LyX seems to > follow them.
Hm, lyx -geometry 750x750+0+88 does work for me. However, I'm not able to resize the lyx window to something smaller than the starting size. > How do I get the geometry parameters, including position on the screen, > to work. Thanks, What Windowmanager/DTE do you use? Pit -- Peter "Pit" Suetterlin http://www.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~pit Universitaets-Sternwarte Goettingen Tel.: +49 551 39-5048 [EMAIL PROTECTED]