On Monday 17 January 2011 18:40:50 raf wrote:
> 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?
i'd forget gtk options -- source a script that specifies
winsize and winpos -- will those work for you on the mac?
:h winsize
:h winpos
sc
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