Re: Gnome (and KDE ?) aoos and classix X command line argumnets?
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 02:32:08AM -0400, James Strandboge wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 11:08, stan wrote:
> > Iwant to use one or 2 Gnome (or perhaps KDE) based apps (EG Gnotepad) in
> > an environemnt based upon a lightwight window manager, such as twm.
> >
> > However, at least the Gnome apps), seem to not understand the classix X
> > argumnets (as documneted in the X man page), such as -iconic, and
> > -geometry.
> >
> > Is there a way to fix this?
>
> I did:
> gnome-terminal --geometry +100+100
>
> and it worked fine. I don't know about iconic though.
>
Try
gnome-terminal --geometry 0x0+100+100
I think you will be disapointed. At least on my machine gnome-terminal
seems to "accept" the --gemetry switch, but ignores it. It just
returns a usage message on --iconic.
Ah, well, I thoguht I was close :-(
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