Patrick Martin spake unto us the following wisdom: > Can someone explain how the startup command switch of: > > --display=DISPLAY X display to use > > ...works... I was in hurry yesterday and rather critically spazzed out > on Pidgin. I mistakenly clicked to take it full screen.
This doesn't do what you want. It controls which X11 server Pidgin
connects to. We don't have a --geometry option, which would be what
you want (but isn't very meaningful for Pidgin, which pops up many
windows).
You can edit ~/.purple/prefs.xml to change this size, if your wm isn't
forcing it; look under the 'pidgin' section, in 'blist', for the prefs
'x' and 'y', 'width' and 'height':
<pref name='x' type='int' value='0'/>
<pref name='y' type='int' value='0'/>
<pref name='width' type='int' value='250'/>
<pref name='height' type='int' value='405'/>
Change these to something sane. The above values are sane on my
display. You need to do this when Pidgin is not running.
More generally, you have a window manager problem, here. It shouldn't
resize windows such that you can't reach the handles, and if it does,
it should provide you a way to fix that situation. This isn't
something that Pidgin itself (nor most X11 apps) handles.
Ethan
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