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From: bobo@pecan15.cray.com (Bob Kierski)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: How to specify Xterm icon position in command line?
Message-ID: <164522.12631@timbuk.cray.com>
Date: 19 Dec 90 23:15:22 GMT
References: <47975@siemens.siemens.com>
Reply-To: bobo@pecan15.cray.com (Bob Kierski)
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In article <47975@siemens.siemens.com>, samaddar@demon.siemens.com (Sumitro Samaddar) writes:
|> 
|> I need some help here. 
|> 
|> (a) I can, of course, move the icons with the mouse.
|>     However, how does one specify the icon position in the command line?
|>     The "geometry" option can specify only the size and position of the actual
|>     xterm and not for it's icon.
|> 
|>     In SunView/OpenWindows, the icon positions for ShellTool/CmdTool can be
|>     specified using "-WP" option.

I think there is another way... But the way I do it is

	xterm -xrm "*IconX: ___" -xrm "*IconY:___"


|> 
|> (b) In SunView/OpenWindows, the title bar for ShellTool/CmdTool can be
|>     altered by using the alias :
|> 	alias header "echo -n "^[]l!*^[\"
|>     and then using the command :
|> 	header <xxx> where <xxx> is any string.
|>     I use this to display the current user/machine/directory on the title bar.
|>     However, I have not been able to use this on an xterm.


echo -n "^[]0;\!*^G" works.  The 0 after ] indicates that both the icon label
and window label are to be changed.



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