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From: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Terminal Window Location
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Date: 4 Oct 89 18:41:48 GMT
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In article <2276@hydra.gatech.EDU> gil@gatech.edu (Gil Neiger) writes:
>I would like to have a Terminal window launch itself at startup and for it
>to be in the same place every time I log in.  Using dwrite I find that I
>can only control where the next Terminal window will start; after that,
>the default locations are both incremented by 24.  The dock doesn't allow
>me to specify options or flags to a command, so I'm not sure what I can do.

That is indeed an irritating problem.  The default locations are also changed
when you move a window.  My workaround is to put the appropriate dwrite
commands into my .login (to handle the change that takes effect whenever a new
terminal window is opened) and also into my .logout (to handle the case when a
window is moved).  Ouch!

Why doesn't somebody work on adding scrolling capability, instead of putting in
such howling misfeatures as this?

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Dave Seaman	  					
ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu