Almut Behrens wrote on Dec, 17: [...]
> > 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". Thank you so much for the tips, Almut. I got confused because Xfce launchers come pre-configured with xfterm4, which is a wrapper than can call whatever terminal is set in $TERMCMD. I still get confused by it, so I'm calling xfce4-terminal directly, passing the geometry and application to run. > 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 That's a good idea. If any of the commands gets out of hand, I'll follow this path. Thank you very much for taking the time to answer Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
