Alex Buell wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Paul Tomblin wrote:
> > That's too bad, because I consider the ability to be able to put a
> > bunch of applications in my .xinitrc and start them up on the
> > appropriate Workspaces of primary importance. Session saving is very
^^^^^^^^^^
> > very low on my list, but not having to manually start Netscape, my
> > applications, and 12 xterms in the appropriate workspaces is a show
^^^^^^^^^^
> > stopper for me. I guess I'm going back to Window Maker. Too bad,
> > because Blackbox was visibly faster.
>
> Oh yes you can. You just have to force the apps to come up and force their
> placement like the following .xinitrc - what do you think the -geometry
> option is for?
In the .xinitrc you place things a few hundred pixels from the right edge of
the screen. I cannot for the life of me see how that's supposed to place them
in different workspaces.
> # Display logs
> xterm -fn lucidasanstypewriter-12 -bg black -fg white -geometry
> 132x43+300+394 -e tail -f /var/log/messages &
300 pixels from the left edge of the screen.
> # Start up the xterm session
> xterm -fn lucidasanstypewriter-12 -bg black -fg white -geometry 132x43+0+0
> &
Exactly on the left edge of the screen.
> # Start up xosview
> xosview -geometry 200x348+0+650 &
Also on the left edge of the screen.
So where do you even once place something in other than the first Workspace?
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