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From: dce@Solbourne.COM (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Geometry enhancements
Message-ID: <1747@marvin.Solbourne.COM>
Date: 24 Jul 89 23:23:03 GMT
References: <34700016@primerd> <8907241559.AA17904@expire.lcs.mit.edu>
Reply-To: dce@Solbourne.com (David Elliott)
Organization: Solbourne Computer Inc., Longmont, Colorado
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In article <8907241559.AA17904@expire.lcs.mit.edu> rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU writes:
>
>    How about some symbols like: Top, Bottom, Left, Right, and Center
>    which evaluate to the right thing on your server?
>
>Equivalents of Top, Bottom, Left, and Right already exist:
>	+0, -0, +0, and -0

Agreed.  In fact, I have a useful device that I will now put into
the public domain (showing how much it's worth):

	On each corner of my screen, I have a sticker showing the
	position at that location, as in:

		+0+0			-0+0

			   Screen

		+0-0			-0-0

	When I need to place an item relative to, say, the bottom right
	of the screen, I look over and see the sticker that says -0-0,
	and I know that the syntax for such a placement is -x-y.

Also, rws didn't mention that you can set icon placement for any
Xt-based clients by using

	-xrm "*iconX: {x place}" -xrm "*iconY: {y place}"

I didn't check xmh to see if this would work, but it's done generally
well for me.

-- 
David Elliott		dce@Solbourne.COM
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