Thanks, I'll try it later as I'm currently on a public computer. I was planning to use xfce4-terminal, not gnome-terminal though, does anyone know if xfce4-terminal works with the -geometry option. Quoting Paul Sladen <ubu...@paul.sladen.org>:
> On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Harry Rickards wrote: >> command .... to be opened on a secondary monitor from a terminal > > X applications (all of them) historically supported the "-display" and > "-geometry" options on the command line: > > xterm -geometry 80x25+1024+0 > > Which if you secondary monitor is 1024 pixels to the right should place it > on that monitor. A '-' instead of the '+' causes right-alignment instead. > Originally you used to have to run a separate X server for each monitor, and > that is what '-display :1' is for (you might also come across it for X > forwarding, or ssh and other special cases), but now there is Xinerama. > > Sadly, I tested "-geometry" with gnome-terminal and it doesn't understand > the traditionally-understood options. These is probably some way to put > this options in a Window Manager configuration file too; but my memory blurs > back to fvwm2 and that's maybe not relevant any more... > > Hope that helps, > > -Paul > -- > Why do one side of a triangle when you can do all three. Somewhere, GB. > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
