Re: FVWM: netscape window placement

From: Lee Willis <lee_at_gbdirect.co.uk>
Date: 20 Jan 1999 09:33:42 +0000

Denis Kholodar <dbk_at_acpub.duke.edu> writes:

> commands like:
> "xterm -geometry 72x40+0+0"
> "xemacs -geometry 72x40+0+0"
> work fine, but when i try to place my netscape window at 0:0 with
> "netscape -geometry 863x625+0+0"
> it comes up somewhere at 0:25 or 10:50 etc.
>
> what might be wrong?
> thanks a lot for any responce.
> Denis

Put simply Netscape doesn't like being told where to put itself. It's
not a window manager bug, but a Netscape "feature". You can solve it by
putting something in your X resources file, but I'm afraid I don't know
what. It should be in the archive though ...

HTH
Lee.
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Received on Wed Jan 20 1999 - 03:34:17 GMT

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