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From: hughes@3bjuniorec.usf.edu (Ken Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X version of Sun's toolplaces
Keywords: toolplaces
Message-ID: <1385@ziggy.EDU>
Date: 25 Jul 90 02:53:07 GMT
References: <664@kzinty.moncam.co.uk>
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Reply-To: hughes@sol.csee.usf.edu (Ken Hughes)
Organization: University of South Florida, College of Engineering
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In article <664@kzinty.moncam.co.uk>, justin@moncam.co.uk (No.6 who is
LOUD!!) writes:
|>
|>When I was running sunview there was a handy command called
|>"toolplaces".
|>This allowed you to set up your display, positioning all the windows
|>etc .. just right, where they went when closed blah blah ... and
|>then you could execute "toolplaces > .suntools" and this would
|>create your startup file to postion everything when invoking sunview.
|>
|>Does such a thing exist under/for X11/R3 (if I can get a bigger disk
|>for my sun I'll try R4 ... Any one know how much room R4 will take ->
|>uncompressed, everything compiled, bare minimum compiled .....?).
|>
|>If not is it worth writing one? 
|>
|>Ta folks and a Yakey day to you all (thats said in a Welsh cum 
|>'up north accent)
|>-- 
|>.                      JUstin "Kipper" Myatt       .    
|> .  0--////--/    Monotype International Software   .  0--/////--/
|>  ./         |    Cambridge Science Park, England    ./          |
|>   \__\\\\\--\    	justin@moncam.uucp 	      \__\\\\\\--\
                     
Get xplaces.tar.Z from expo.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib.  It will do most of
what you want I think.

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