Yesterday at 9:46pm, Geekjuice.com wrote: > i've been wondering lately if there's a way to change the distance that an > application is displayed from the edge of the screen... > > for instance... if i had netscape open, and i move it to the top left corner, > very top left. and i close it, and open it again. it will remain the same > size, but it will always spawn about 30 pixels from the top, and left edges of > my screen. same with any other application. also, when i have an app > maximized, and i start it again, it will be nearly full size, but will have > been shrunk to fit a certain distance from the edge. > > this is kinda annoying, is there a way to change it? For netscape (which chooses its own place to open), you could put the following resources in your .Xdefaults file (taken from the Netscape.ad file): ! For the web browser window: Netscape.Navigator.geometry: =500x700+100-0 ! For the mail reader: Netscape.Mail.geometry: =500x800+200-0 ! For the news reader: Netscape.News.geometry: =500x800+300-0 ! For the mail editor: Netscape.Composition.geometry: =400x600 ! For the bookmarks window: Netscape.Bookmarks.geometry: =300x900-0-0 ! For the address book window: Netscape.AddressBook.geometry: =600x900-300-0 ! For the download windows: Netscape.Download.geometry: =500x200-0-0 the geometry strings have a syntax of = width x height xoffset yoffset the xoffset and yofffset should start with either - or +. a minus `-' causes a window to be placed that amount of pixels from bottom/right edge of screen. When you use edgeSnapThresHold feature, Blackbox opens its windows always that amount of pixels from the edge of the screen. There is a small patch to change that. Wilbert -- "We really need to demonstrate to people like Nokia why our PDA will connect to Office in a better way than other PDAs even if that means changing how we do flexible schema in Outlook and how we tie some of our audio and video advanced work to only run on our PDAs," -- Bill Gates, July 11, 1999
