Re: gnome-terminal dimensions

["John P. Verel" <jverel home com>]

On 07/03/01, 09:38:18PM +0800, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
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> Oops! I forgot to mention the super-secret trick that window managers
> play on you. :-)

Morning.  Running sawfish-0.38-ximian.4, gnome-core-1.4.0.4-ximian.3, on
Red Hat 7.1, 2.4.2-2.  My sawfish Placement is set to "Automatically
remember window positions, Automatically remember window sizes,
Automatically remember other window attributes, Don't automatically
remember details of transient windows."  Gnome-terminal is started
without any geometry settings.  On this basis, g-t size and position are
rembered and work flawlessly.  Perhaps the only "glitch" I find is that
the size and position of a second instance is remembered separately from
the first instance, i.e. if I exit a maximized second instance but not
the first instance, those settings will be used next time I open two g-t
instances.

John
> 
> I'll bet you have the "Method of placing windows" setting under the
> "Placement" menu set to something other than "None". In that case,
> sawfish takes over the window placement and will ignore the geometry
> placement to a certain extent.
> 
> Doing something like --geometry=80x25+0-100 will still get a window
> placed half of the screen, though. I think this is because the terminal
> initally asks to be placed in a stupid position and the window manager
> realises there is a lot of space for it there and so it fits easily.
> 
> I don't know if this is a bug or a feature of sawfish (I suspect the
> latter, since you said it happens with twm as well), but I find it to be
> a pain.  :-)


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John P. Verel
Norwalk, CT