[ale] resizing an X window from the command line?

Danny Cox danscox at mindspring.com
Fri Jan 9 17:15:48 EST 2004


John,

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 13:32, John Wells wrote:
> Seems I've done this in the past, but can't for the life of me recall how.
>  Is there a utility that allows you to resize and X window that's already
> be spawned from the command line?

	See the -geometry argument.  For xterm (and other terminal emulators),
you can say -geometry 80x52 and get colums and lines (I think). 
Otherwise it's in pixels.

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Danny



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