Brian Servis wrote:
>
> I am having a really weird problem with xconsole and fvwm placing
> it at startup.
>
> I start it with the following:
>
> xconsole -file /dev/xconsole -bg black -fg green -font 5x7
> -geometry 743x69+0+258 -xrm "*Page:3"
>
> Yet when it starts it does not show on page 3. If I bring up the
> windowlist it list it with the geometry of: 743x69+0+198402.
> ^^^^^^^^
> yikes!!!
>
> If I select the window from the window list it brings the window to
> +0+0. At which point I can then drag it to the appropiate place in the
> window(+0+258).
The problem is that there is no such thing as "page 3": pages are
icentified by a pair of x,y coordinates relative to the page at the
upper left hand corner of the virtual desktop (0 0). If, for example,
you want to place the window on the third page of the top row of the
desktop grid, you would specify "FvwmPage: 2 0".
You should take a closer look at the StartsOnPage option of the Style
command in the man page. If you specify only one argument, this means
you're specifying the desk, not the page. Two arguments specify a
relative page on the current desk, and three arguments specify desk and
page.
- Bob
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Received on Tue May 25 1999 - 19:23:06 BST