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Re: XWinrc and window placement
- From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:33:47 -0400
- Subject: Re: XWinrc and window placement
- References: <3F999654.9050307@jhu.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Jeff,
Jeffrey J. Gray wrote:
Hi,
Just upgraded my cygwin build for the first time in about a year and I'm
loving all the new stuff! A couple questions:
1-What can go in XWinrc? I see a news posting on the cygwin/xfree86 web
page that you can put custom commands in the tray icon, but the link to
the sample XWinrc file is broken. Could someone post such a file?
I believe you are referring to the example.XWinrc link on the project
home page (http://xfree86.cygwin.com). If so, the broken link has been
fixed. The sample .XWinrc file has all of the documenation in it that I
know of (Earle F. Philhower III wrote it). There has not yet been a
section written in the User's Guide for this feature.
2-new xterms always appear in the upper left corner of my screen, all on
top of each other. Are there any provisions for 'smart placement' of
windows? How would I turn this on? Preferences in XWinrc perhaps??
No smart placement, but you can change the placement of the windows
using the geometry flags (generic to almost all X apps, please seek
other documentation for this).
Also, this implies that you are using startx (I think), when you should
most likely be using startxwin.bat instead. Give it a try, see if you
like it. I will eventually update the startx scripts, but I don't
understand them as well as the batch file, so startx will always be a
little out of date.
Thanks for the help, and kudos to all the devs out there.
No problem, glad you like it.
Harold