On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 14:23 +0800, Atommann wrote: > Hi, > > 2010/4/7 Dave N6NZ <[email protected]>: > > This may be an X-windows-on-Mac question, not a gEDA question, but... > > > > When gschem or pcb open on my macbook, the window is too tall, and the > > resize grabber is off the screen on the bottom and I can't reach it to > > resize the window. Normally, not an issue since I immediately move the > > window over to a nice big second monitor... but... when I am on the road, > > this sucks hugely. > > > > So... is this an X-windows setting someplace? Or is there some place in the > > source code where it asks for the screen size and opens over the whole > > works? -- I'm building both gschem and pcb from sources so I can easily > > tweak if that is the case. > > When gschem starts up, it show: > ... > Read system config file [/usr/share/gEDA/system-gafrc] > Read system config file [/usr/share/gEDA/system-gschemrc] > Read user config file [/home/atommann/.gEDA/gschemrc] > Read init scm file [/usr/share/gEDA/scheme/gschem.scm] > ... > > So, you can open /usr/share/gEDA/system-gschemrc and search for > keyword "window", read it and you will find how to change the initial > size of the gschem window :) > > You can also add the following line to the file ~/.gEDA/gschemrc to > override the settings in system-gschemrc > (window-size 950 712) ; Good size for 1152x864
Looking at the code, I'm not sure that will actually do anything.. let me know if it works. We now have a file which remembers location and size of various windows, but not the main window - the window manager is in charge of that kind of thing. Regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
