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From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: toolplaces/xwininfo equivalent?
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.181251.20223@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 17 Oct 90 18:12:51 GMT
References: <1990Oct17.005518.26123@nas.nasa.gov>
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In article <1990Oct17.005518.26123@nas.nasa.gov>, browning@nas.nasa.gov (David S. Browning) writes:
|> 
|> In IRIX 3.2 running 4Sight 1.4 on a 4D/60.
|> (No IRIX 3.3 'till I get bigger disks.)
|> 
|> I'd like to extract position and size information from the windows that
|> are currently on my screen (not just their prefposition's).  After I
|> move the windows around so they're how I want them, I want to know what
|> size and position coordinates to put in my user.ps file so they will
|> come up the same way next time.  Suntools has "toolplaces," X11 has
|> "xwininfo." Is there something similar for 4Sight (rather, NeWS)?
In ~4Dgifts/.4sight there is a file called prefpos.ps.  This file, which
can be loaded from your user.ps, adds an entry to the window frame menu
of all your windows that saves the windows position in a file in a form
understood by the window manager so that it will place the window in the
same place next time.

Look at the READM in ~4Dgifts/.4sight and the comments in the file for
more information.
-- 
From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
msc@ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl}!sgi!msc
"There is much virtue in a window.  It is to a human being as a frame is to
a painting, as a proscenium to a play.  It strongly defines its content."