Re: geometry question
Re: geometry question
- Subject: Re: geometry question
- From: David Brown <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:46:17 -0800
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 07:31:51PM -0700, Doug McNutt wrote:
> Where is the man page for geometry as applied to X11?
>
> -geometry 80x66+100+200
>
> Are the units pixels? 80x66 is tiny. Or are they character counts in some font? What font? If so, 100 and 200 seem like unreasonably large offsets.
The 80x66 is in terms of the font that xterm will be using. The
+100+200 is in pixels, and is from the upper left corner of the screen.
quartz-wm is nice enough to not hide the window under the menu-bar.
xterm will use the initial font it is going to display with the
determine the size of the window.
Dave Brown
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