On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:41:10 +0100 Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: -geometry > argument to apps, eg. xclock -geometry 400x400+10+10 you can ommit the > size bit (400x400) if you just want to set position. Giveing -'s for the > position make it relative to the right/bottom edge. > > Not all newer apps accept that argument though. Hmm, shouldn't these apps be considered broken then? the -geometry switch is an xlib thing and handled transparently if the app passes the commandline to xlib.. i suppose some toolkits might do their own commandline processing and then forget to pass stuff on to xlib.. maybe i talk nonsense though. Florian Schmidt -- Palimm Palimm!
