Re: OOo startup
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:38:50PM -0500, Rob Bochan wrote:
> On Thursday 10 March 2005 05:31 pm, Ralph Katz wrote:
>
> > In my .xsession file, I have xrandr -s 1 to launch X with 12 X 10
> > instead of the monitor's default 1600 X 1200 resolution. I suppose you
> > could put an appropriately similar command in your .xinitrc file. Just
> > an idea, I'm not an expert.
>
> I see what you're referring to now. I just tried setting up a .xsession file
> with:
> xrandr -s 1024x768 &&
> exec ooffice
>
> which left me with the same effect as before. If I set the -s switch to
> 800x600, that still leaves me with a ton of screen real estate unused, since
> the lcd on that machine doesn't do 800x600. The fonts are godawful in that
> mode too.
>
> It's a shame OOo has left this functionality up to the wm.
Maybe you could start a wm, then start openoffice, and then kill the wm?
If you choose a lightweight wm that supports setting window size in a
configuration file, that should work.
(.xinitrc would be something like:
mywm &
wmpid=$!
openoffice &
oopid=$!
sleep 30 # or whatever time openoffice needs to start on your system.
# there is probably also a way to check if the correct window
# exists, using some tool to list windows.
kill $wmpid
wait $oopid
)
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