hi, i have recently been forced to use the gtk version of gvim on macosx and am desperately wishing to be able to start it and have it appear with the size and position of my choice automatically without me having to aim the the mouse and click in order to position it. with the motif and athena versions of vim i could rely on x resources to do this.
gtk vim takes a -geometry argument which i assumed was like x11's standard -geometry option in that it lets you specify the geometry of the window (i.e. its size and position). however, i've just read the documentation for this option (gui_x11.txt) and it seems that it only mentions the size. it doesn't mention position at all. would it be possible/acceptable to make the geometry option argument handle the standard syntax (i.e. #x#[+-]#[+-]#) and support specifiying the position of the window as well as its size? is there any reason that it doesn't do this? hmm, i've just looked at the code (gui_gtk_x11.c) and it does parse the position part of the geometry argument and it does try to use it in a call to gtk_window_move() but it doesn't seem to be working. any idea why that might be? cheers, raf macosx-10.6.6, X11, twm, vim-7.3.102 -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
