On 1/22/14, Patrick Bartek <bartek047@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> Are you wanting the location/size to script the re-creation of xterms? > > Yes. Already accomplished. All I needed was each running xterm's > stats. xwininfo nicely supplied that. > > For future reference: Any other utilities you can suggest that do the > same thing? Never can have too many tools to do the same thing. This > is Linux after all. ;-) Oh, well, now that you ask ... my whizz-bang algorithmic xterm layout script :) It's taken me many hours over various months, to build up enough knowledge of bash (dependency) to get proper subroutines, local variables, etc, happening in a way which I think is reasonably elegant (if one can ever call bash scripting elegant :) As you can see in this xt script, there are many commands which can be run, eg: xt x1x2 xt x3x1 xt x7 etc etc There are a few defaults at the top of the script, and a separate xterm.conf file which is for my default font, scrollback and other settings. Extract to a tmp dir, or view the contents first. These files have been zipped from the root of my $HOME, thus these files: .config/ZBASE etc/xterm.conf bin/xt See attached, Zenaan
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