On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 08:54:53AM -0200, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote: > Hi, > > I'm migrating from KDE to Xfce and I'm not being able to do this: to add a > launcher in the Panel for a program running on a terminal, with customized > terminal properties. For example, I'd like to launch mutt and mc within a > taller terminal window, without menu and scroll bars. If the program doesn't > run on a terminal, like xconsole, for example, I just need to add a -geometry > argument. I can't figure out how to do something similar to programs that run > on a terminal.
This somewhat depends on what options the terminal understands, but the approach would generally be much the same, i.e. use -geometry for the terminal that mc/mutt/... is running in. Size is sometimes specified in pixels, but usually in characters, e.g. for "mc in rxvt" I have a command like rxvt -geometry 120x50+480+0 -e mc -geometry applies to the terminal; the -e executes the application in the terminal. Feel free to add other options as required -- mc options would of course go after "-e mc". For more complex start commands (where you need to set up environment variables and stuff) I usually put everything in a small wrapper script, which I then call from the window manager. The last command in such a script would typically be an "exec" (which avoids that an unnecessary shell process is kept running...) #!/bin/sh # do some setup here, like specific locale changes, lib paths, colors # or whatever there's no commandline option for... exec rxvt -geometry 120x60+50+20 -e mutt Cheers, Almut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
