[ctwm] Re: Window positioning

2006-07-24 Thread Johan Vromans
FYI: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20573 -- Johan

[ctwm] Re: Window positioning (and Gnome)

2006-07-21 Thread Johan Vromans
[Quoting Claude Lecommandeur, on July 21 2006, 10:03, in "Re: [ctwm] Re: Windo"] >One idea would be to use xrdb to set ressources on the server. These > resources are stored > as a property of the root window (do xprop -root to see this in action). > Ctwm can read this > property and perform

[ctwm] Re: Window positioning (and wierd screen handling)

2006-07-21 Thread Johan Vromans
Anthony Thyssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My problem is varible screen sizes. I use the same setup files for > screens ranging from 600x400 to 1900x1200 [...] multiple flavors of > linux [...] Same here. That's one of the reasons I very much like to stick to ctwm as long as possible. Hmmm, so

[ctwm] Re: Window positioning (and Gnome)

2006-07-21 Thread Claude Lecommandeur
Johan Vromans wrote: Anthony Thyssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... What I would like to have (ideally) is a wrapper program that can be run with: xgeo that starts , waits for its request to map the main window, and then applies the desired for it. I think ctwm could handle this ea

[ctwm] Re: Window positioning (and wierd screen handling)

2006-07-20 Thread Anthony Thyssen
Marcel Heinz on wrote... | > | Hmm, it is actually possible to define fixed geometry for specific windows | > | via the ctwm config file. Look out for the WindowGeometries list. From my | > | .ctwmrc: | > | | > | |WindowGeometries { | > | |"Mozilla" "MaxGeom" | > | |"*Acroba

[ctwm] Re: Window positioning (and Gnome)

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:59:37 +0200, Johan Vromans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: jvromans> What I would like to have (ideally) is a wrapper program jvromans> that can be run with: jvromans> jvromans> xgeo Why limit yourself to geometry settings? The safest would

[ctwm] Re: Window positioning (and Gnome)

2006-07-20 Thread Johan Vromans
Anthony Thyssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually I have been through this problem myself, with gnome > applications. > > The solution is a small app called.. xwit > xwit -- window interface tool: pop, resize, position, or iconify windows Yes, i've tried this as well (using the scripts yo

[ctwm] Re: Window positioning (and Gnome)

2006-07-19 Thread Anthony Thyssen
Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker on wrote... | In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:08:44 +0200, Kai Grossjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: | | kai.grossjohann> But perhaps the same applications that do not support | kai.grossjohann> -geometry also do not support -xrm :-( | | Yeah, t

[ctwm] Re: Window positioning

2006-07-19 Thread Johan Vromans
Marcel Heinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm, it is actually possible to define fixed geometry for specific windows > via the ctwm config file. Look out for the WindowGeometries list. Yes, but this is definitely not what I'm looking for. It is imperative that the geometry can be passed upon sta

[ctwm] Re: Window positioning

2006-07-19 Thread Johan Vromans
Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If so, it probably won't help since -xrm is even less supported than > -geometry. Indeed... -- Johan

[ctwm] Re: Window positioning

2006-07-19 Thread Marcel Heinz
Hi, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Stefan "who agrees that setting geometry info in ctwmrc would be > great for some apps, even some which do support -geometry" Hmm, it is actually possible to define fixed geometry for specific windows via the ctwm config file. Look out for the W

[ctwm] Re: Window positioning

2006-07-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I think there was a message a long while ago about how you could > somehow make a program's windows end up in a workspace specified > through en environment variable or some other command line construct. Are you think of "-xrm ctwm.workspace:Foo" ? If so, it probably won't help since -xrm is eve

[ctwm] Re: Window positioning

2006-07-19 Thread Claude Lecommandeur
Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:35:59 +0200, Johan Vromans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: jvromans> Can ctwm play a role in this -- maybe ctwm can handle a jvromans> geometry request? Or a wrapper program that waits until the jvromans> wind

[ctwm] Re: Window positioning

2006-07-19 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:08:44 +0200, Kai Grossjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: kai.grossjohann> But perhaps the same applications that do not support kai.grossjohann> -geometry also do not support -xrm :-( Yeah, that's why I wondered if there was an environment kind

[ctwm] Re: Window positioning

2006-07-19 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:35:59 +0200, Johan Vromans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: jvromans> Can ctwm play a role in this -- maybe ctwm can handle a jvromans> geometry request? Or a wrapper program that waits until the jvromans> window is mapped, and then places/resizes it