Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woi...@gmail.com> writes:

> Greetings,
>
> On Wednesday, 2019-06-19 14:32:06 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
>> In message <icblytzq3z....@home.home>, 
>> Dan Espen <dan1es...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >So, I'm afraid I can't duplicate your issue but I can see gthumb
>> >is really buggy.
>> 
>> I'm not sure that's a proper assumption.
>> ...
>
> Sorry,  it was not my intention  to fire up a discussion about "gthumb".
> And in particular not on this list.   It was just the unwanted behaviour
> of this particular programme which made me look for a way to counter it.

Sorry, was trying to explain why I could only do so much testing.

> So let me rephrase my request without mentioning a particular programme:
>
> Is there a way to tell "fvwm"  to open a window using a particular init-
> ial size?  I'm aware of
>
>    Style xxx PositionPlacement HOR VERT
>
> but I'm interested in specifying exactly the other two parameters from a
> normal "WIDTHxHEIGHT+HOR+VERT"  X11 geometry specification.   And I only
> want to specify an INITIAL size,  the user should be able to later manu-
> ally change the window size.

I don't think Fvwm will do that, especially for an application going
full screen.  If the application was in a window, you might be able to
use Fvwm resize.

However, it seemed to me that it was pretty straight forward to
configure gthumb not to use full screen.

-- 
Dan Espen

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