At Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:42:56 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org> wrote:
> > Robert Heller wrote: > <snip> > > This is *my* setup: my xterms have a green background, with black text, > > a red cursor, an VT100 geometry of 80x38 (characters), with a scrollbar, > > and using the font specified by > > '-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-*-1'. > <snip> > Here's a related question: I've played around in the past, but have never > gotten it to work: I want to arrange *where* firefox and thunderbird come > up on my screen. They don't *seem* to recognize -geometry.... Any idea? You are basically out of luck, unless there is something in the depths of .gtk<mumble> or .gconf<mumble> that handles this. GNome / GTK applications don't look at the X11 database and don't take any of the traditional X11 application command like arguments (even when they are listed in the man pages for said applications!). > > mark > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / hel...@deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
