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From: dana@dino.bellcore.com (Dana A. Chee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: New User's Questions (LONG)
Keywords: twm, xterm, user's manual, menus, Sun-3
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.124850.17713@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 12:48:50 GMT
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In article <1386@riscsm.scripps.edu>, bashford@scripps.edu (Don Bashford) writes:
|> In article <1991Jun12.120226.21668@bellcore.bellcore.com> dana@thumper.bellcore.com writes:
|> <In article <162@spunky.NYU.EDU>, mckenney@CS.NYU.EDU (Alan M. McKenney) writes:
|> <...
|> <|> 1)  SunWindows allows me to have a (function) key resize a window to
|> <|>     a specified size.  (At least it works with cmdtool and shelltool.)
|> <|>     Is there a way to set this up, at least for XTerm?
|> <|>
|> <
|> <I don't think twm has that ability (or any other window manager that I
|> <know of).  xterm doesn't have it either (it does let you switch fonts
|> <though, so maybe that's a next logical step).
|> 
|> Check out twm's f.zoom function and friends.
|> 
|> 
|> Don Bashford
|> bashford@scripps.edu

That's almost there, but you need to be able to give *zoom an argument
that says what size to make the window.  For example,

"F1" = : window : f.zoom "80x35"
"F2" = : window : f.zoom "80x24"

would make the window 80x35 when F1 was used, and 80x24 when F2 was
used (of course, it would be nice to constrain these keys to work only
in xterm windows, but getting it working at all would be nice.

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