Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com> writes:
> On 03 Jan 2003 12:46:00 -0800, Perry Hutchison wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to configure 2.2.4 to restrict windows to the size of
> > the screen, even if -geometry requests larger?
> >
> > Motivation: I want an xterm just tall enough to display an entire
> > file, but no taller than the screen. This:
> >
> > xterm -geometry "80x`wc -l < $f | tr -d ' '`" +sb -sl 0 -e less $f
> >
> > gets the file length almost right -- it's off by one line because it
> > doesn't allow for the "less" command/status line at the bottom -- but
> > if the file is longer than 89 lines the window doesn't fit on the
> > screen. I could write a more complicated script, except that there's
> > no immediately-obvious way for a script to determine the maximum line
> > count for whatever display it might happen to be running on.
>
> Use "xwininfo -root" to get the screen size, then substruct decorations
> (border size, title height), then substruct xterm's scroll bar, then
> divide by the font used in xterm (7x14), you should get the needed
> geometry for xterm.
>
> Or just do the right thing and run the latest stable 2.4.14, then do:
>
> Style XTerm MaxWindowSize $[vp.width]p $[vp.height]p
Gee, I did search the man page before I answered.
(I searched for "size" but I guess I just got too many hits.)
It looks like the above command equivalent to:
Style XTerm MaxWindowSize 100 100
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Received on Fri Jan 03 2003 - 16:17:20 GMT