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From: boberg@june.cs.washington.edu (Bruce Oberg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: icon geometries?
Keywords: icon geometry toolkit
Message-ID: <8620@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 30 Jun 89 02:42:57 GMT
Sender: boberg@june.cs.washington.edu
Reply-To: boberg@june.cs.washington.edu (Bruce Oberg)
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i used to start my X11R3/Ultrix2.3 day with a bunch of windows
spawned by xdm from my .xsession file. just recently, however, i've
had this uncontrollable urge to have most everything start up as their
respective icons via "-iconic" clauses in my .xsession.

having found woefully numerous ways to do virtually everything else
i've ever wanted to do with X, imagine my astonishment at the
non-existence of any convienient way to specify startup locations for
my icons. no matter what "-geometry" says, they all end up on top of
each other at +0+0! stumbling through the manuals, i can find no way
to change this. but wait!, i find in the Xtoolkit *sources* that there
are two resources called iconX and iconY which can be set to specify
the icon's location. but do they understand "-geometry"'s [-+]XX[-+]YY
format for placement at various corners?  you might think they would.
you'd be wrong.

please, oh benevolent and merciful X11R3 gods, tell me there is a
hidden "-icongeometry" parameter encrypted into the Xtoolkit sources!
please deliver me from the hell of having all my icons in the upper
left corner! i will be forever grateful.



bruce


"...a just machine to make big decisions,
 programmed by fellows, with compassion and vision..."

 -donald fagen