Neil Bird wrote:
>
> "Brian D. McGrew" wrote:
> > Quick question. I'm using a virtual 2x2 desktop.
> > How, using what commands can I tell X-Terminal which
> > desktop I want it to load on. (ie. I want to load one
> > on desktop 1x1, 1x2 and 2x2; but not 2x1). Can this
> > be done? If so, can someone give me the command?
>
> <Ahem> "RTFM".
>
> (BTW, I believe the pages start at '0' not '1').
Yes, they do.
> xterm -xrm "*Page:3 2 1"
>
> will start an xterm two pages to the right and one down from
> the upper left hand page of desk number 3. Not all applica-
> tions understand the use of these options, however.
>
> Mind you, I've not tried that myself ... and you may be able to omit the
> desk number as you can with StartsOnPage.
Yes, you can. "*Page: 2 1" will give you this relative page positioning
on the current desktop. (The full resource name is actually
"Fvwm.Page".)
Also, in most cases you'd probably want to set a style like
Style "xterm" SkipMapping
to avoid warping to each desktop in turn as these xterms are started up.
At least I would find that annoying.
Brian -- you didn't tell us what release of FVWM you're using. This
technique that Neil describes requires 2.2 or later. If you're using
2.0.46, there's a patch available to implement StartsOnPage.
If you're using version 1, you're out of luck. You have to use the old
hack of specifying geometries on the command line to position the
windows beyond the boundaries of the currently visible viewport (page),
and it only works if you are on page 0,0 (upper left hand corner) when
you start them. (And, frankly, I won't guarantee that it works at all:
version 1 hasn't been actively supported for a long time.)
- Bob
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Received on Thu May 06 1999 - 09:43:41 BST