Re: FVWM: window background color

From: robert_wilhelm_land <robert_wilhelm_land_at_csi.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 18:59:46 +0200

dbarber wrote:

> Robert,
>
> To start xterm with a different geometry, use xterm -geometry +50+50x40x80
>
> The +50+50 tells it where to start on your window manager and the x40x80
> tells it what size to be.
>
> Most options specific to a programs settings are controlled by the
> individual program. You can use "xterm -h" or "xterm -" or, of course,
> "man xterm" to see those options.

Thanks for all helping me.

One main thing I learned now was that programs define their window parameters in
their own conf files.
Xterm however really confuses me, of course I can start xterm with the "-geometry"
option and I did so in the popupmenu file fvwm2 uses - but contrary to the color
option I placed in the ~/Xdefaults file, the geometry option was not noticed (didn't
even cause an error).

There's one file which looks like a configuration file which I'm rather hesitating to
edit, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xterm.terminfo. The settings there are looking quite
cryptic. Anyone familiar with this file?

Unfortunatly my system seems only to use the ~/.Xdefaults file, no Xresources file in
any home directory. As far as I have understood "man xrdb" correctly (there's one
nice URL http://www.tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/resource-manager/), thanks to Richard for
providing the really helpful URL http://www.rahul.net/kenton/xsites.html , Xresources
is only optional and extends rather Xdefaults.

When fvwm2 loads , it places two xterms right at the beginning which have a different
size than just launching a xterm by command. The only line which could be responsable
seems to be in system.fvwm2rc.m4-2:

# RLOGIN machine fg bg
AddToFunc RLOGIN "I" Exec xterm -fg $1 -bg $2 -e rlogin $0 -8
- but no size parameters used there ...


Any further help would be nice



Robert


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