* Re: [9fans] window placement rio in p9p
@ 2008-02-01 15:47 Brian L. Stuart
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Brian L. Stuart @ 2008-02-01 15:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
> Gee, I thought optimistically, that shouldn't be
> *too* hard -- I still have all the X crap paged in
> from yesterday's full-size changes.
>
> I was wrong. But it's done: see xshove in rio(1).
Sweet! I had kind of the same optimistic thought,
but hoped it had already been done. Thanks for
subjecting yourself to more X stuff.
BLS
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] window placement rio in p9p
2008-01-31 19:00 Brian L. Stuart
@ 2008-02-01 2:21 ` Russ Cox
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Russ Cox @ 2008-02-01 2:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> I've been messing around with a new laptop at
> work (the hinges on the old one broke), and
> along the way, I'm reminded of something that's
> bugged me for a while. Is there any way to
> tell rio to move a window that's not manual
> (i.e. using the mouse)? Is there something
> in p9p equivalent to opening a control file
> and writing a command into it, or alternatively
> is there an app that will generate a ConfigureRequest
> event on behalf of a specific window?
Gee, I thought optimistically, that shouldn't be
*too* hard -- I still have all the X crap paged in
from yesterday's full-size changes.
I was wrong. But it's done: see xshove in rio(1).
xshove Firefox +20,10
xshove Firefox 500x800
xshove Firefox 0,0,800,600
xshove Firefox +100x200
The possibilities are endless.
Russ
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* [9fans] window placement rio in p9p
@ 2008-01-31 19:00 Brian L. Stuart
2008-02-01 2:21 ` Russ Cox
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Brian L. Stuart @ 2008-01-31 19:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
I've been messing around with a new laptop at
work (the hinges on the old one broke), and
along the way, I'm reminded of something that's
bugged me for a while. Is there any way to
tell rio to move a window that's not manual
(i.e. using the mouse)? Is there something
in p9p equivalent to opening a control file
and writing a command into it, or alternatively
is there an app that will generate a ConfigureRequest
event on behalf of a specific window?
If you're interested in the context, here it
is. The p9p apps and good old fashioned,
well-behaved X apps support command-line
arguments to establish the initial window
placement. But the ill-behaved apps (e.g.
pretty much anything built on gtk) seem
to assume some other strange policy. For
example, no matter what I do firefox starts
in the upper left corner of the screen.
By contrast pidgin always starts where it
was placed last. But neither of these
behaviors are what I want. I want to
specify the placement in my .xinitrc and
to have the specific placement be based
on my network address, so that I start
different apps at home vs. at work.
Any thoughts?
BLS
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2008-02-01 15:47 UTC | newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2008-02-01 15:47 [9fans] window placement rio in p9p Brian L. Stuart
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-01-31 19:00 Brian L. Stuart
2008-02-01 2:21 ` Russ Cox
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).