It's possible your xinitrc file is starting those other xterms. xinitrc
is where I place all of my commands for starting programs at X
startup. The default location on slackware is:
/var/X11R6/lib/xinit/xinitrc
check for a .xinitrc in your home directory too.
Dan
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, robert_wilhelm_land wrote:
> 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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