Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!ti-csl!tilde.csc.ti.com!usenet From: NEATH@cgi.com Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Controlling PM Desktop Manager Message-ID: <1990Jul24.131929.17894@csc.ti.com> Date: 24 Jul 90 13:19:29 GMT Sender: usenet@csc.ti.com (USENET News System) Organization: TI Computer Science Center, Dallas Lines: 17 I've been using IBM OS/2 EE version 1.2 for a couple of months now and have several questions concerning things that annoy the heck out of me! I previously used a Sun workstation running X and really took advantage of things like the initialization file (.xinitrc) to define the default geometry, iconic status, and location of all windows at startup time. I have found no such convenience under OS/2 -- did I miss something here? A second irritation is the way PM decides to position an icon any place it feels like it when I minimize a window. Why can't it just put it back where it found it? Finally, the file manager is really great, except that there seems to be no simple way to just view an ASCII file. Now, I know I could define my editor as the default application for each and every ASCII file extension that I might ever want to view, but that seems a little excessive. Any ideas on how to get this functionality in a less-obtrusive manner? Martin Neath