Re: FVWM: Default window placementent

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 14:08:35 -0500

"Ripalda-Marin, Miguel-Angel" <maripalda_at_elasa.siemens.es> writes:
> Hi everybody,
>
> First of all I would like to say that we have just started to work with
> fvwm2 and we are very happy about that. It has a great balance between
> performance, flexibility and GUI possibilities. I have been browsing the
> FAQs, .fvwm2rc sample files, mailing list archives and have some doubts that
> I have not been able to solve.
>
> We are trying to setup our fvwm2 window manager in the following way: we
> want that every new window that is created by default has its upper-left
> corner at (0,0) position... I would also like to know if we could set the
> default initial size of each new window created.
>
> The .fvwm2rc file at user's $HOME where I try to set up that default style
> looks like follows:
>
> # default Styles:
> # Added by Miguel Angel Ripalda on December 19th, 2000
> Style "*" BorderWidth 0, HandleWidth 0, notitle, nohandles
> Style "*" Icon unknown1.xpm, Color lightgrey/dimgrey
> Style "*" MWMFunctions, MWMDecor, HintOverride
> Style "*" DecorateTransient, NoPPosition
> Style "*" IconBox 0 -10 -280 -1
> Style "*" FocusFollowsMouse
> Style "*" RandomPlacement, SmartPlacement
> Style "xdaliclock" StaysOnTop
> Style "sxpm" StaysOnTop
>
> Thanks in advance and kind regards

I don't think you would be happy with every window at 0,0.

Have you considered using X Resources, for example:

XTerm*vt100*geometry: 80x34+0+0

or from the command line or your .fvwm2rc:

Exec xterm -geometry 80x34+0+0

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Received on Wed Feb 07 2001 - 13:14:42 GMT

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