Hi all, Is there a general way to determine the geometry of a window in X? What I'm looking for is something that always works in gnome.
I like to have my windows all set up in a standard way (e.g., 3 terminals on a screen, sizes and location just-so, xchat windows also open and just so, email full-screen in a particular workspace, two browsers in different workspaces at different locations, etc). I can get the right look by testing many different --geometry (or -geometry) settings for the various programs but what I'd really like to do is set up the windows just the right way and then *ask* them (or some helper program that can query other program's geometry) what their geometry is so i can put that in a startup script (or a single panel button that, when clicked, opens all the windows in the right places and sizes). In gnome, resizing a gnome-terminal displays height and width (but not offsets). However, resizing, e.g., firefox, doesn't show dimensions. So that's not a universal technique that I can use (I wouldn't mind the manual nature of that since I'd only do it once, or once a month if I want to tweak that often, but tweaking by running a program with different --geometry settings converging on the right setting doesn't appeal (although I'll do it if there's no other way :-). tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo http://bopolissimus.blogspot.com [email protected] [email protected] Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" Usually, a very large amount of work goes into the parsing step (Perl and C++ are probably the best examples of this-both are basically unparseable.) _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
