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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: How to move an  X Window
From:       David Boosalis <david () commandscape ! com>
Date:       2005-12-20 20:08:01
Message-ID: 200512201309.26174.david () commandscape ! com
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Adriaan.
Thank you for your reply, but the command line does not work for us as the app 
swallows arguments and will not allow us to specify -geometry.  So I was 
looking for way to do it after the app appears on the screen.

-David


On Tuesday 20 December 2005 11:40, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 December 2005 21:27, David Boosalis wrote:
> > We are running an X application on KDM.  Does KDM have any hooks as to
> > placing or moving a window.  Maybe there is an X application such as
> > "xset wid -pos 5,5", but I cannot find it.
>
> Your question is a little hard to understand. Are you running this
> application as part of the KDM login screen? The various bits of that are
> controlled by a shell script (somewhere .. I've forgotten how it works
> exactly). If you are starting your X application from there, then use the
> standard Xlib -geometry arguments, like -geometry +5+5 .
>
> [ade]

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David Boosalis
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