Re: A problem with gtk+ apps

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com> writes:
>   There's an interesting annoyance with all apps that use gtk+ for the UI:
> they prevent the window manager from complying with the -geometry option on
> the command line that invokes the app.
> 

They certainly don't prevent it. The app author should parse this
option, then call gtk_window_set_default_size() based on it.
 
>   It would be very nice to have gtk apps honor that command line option as
> other apps do. Is this a reasonable request to the developers?
> 

GTK+ can't parse it automatically, because it requires
application-specific interpretation. (e.g. xterm and Emacs don't
define it the same way as xv)

Havoc