On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

> On 1/21/14, Patrick Bartek <bartek...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Jan 2014, Mathias Bauer wrote:
> >
> >> Hello Patrick,
> >>
> >> * Patrick Bartek wrote on 2014-01-20 at 13:18 (-0800):
> >>
> >> > Need to get geometry of running xterms.  Resize gives me the
> >> > columns and lines.  How do I get the X & Y offsets?
> >>
> >> take a look at
> >>
> >>   $ xwininfo -id WINDOW_ID
> >>
> >> Perhaps that helps.
> >
> > It did indeed.  Gives me more than I needed.  Thanks.
> >
> > And FYI:  you don't even need the WINDOW_ID. Just run xwininfo in
> > any terminal, left click on the target window, and it spits out THAT
> > windows stats.
> 
> Are you wanting the location/size to script the re-creation of xterms?

Yes.  Already accomplished.  All I needed was each running xterm's
stats.  xwininfo nicely supplied that.

For future reference:  Any other utilities you can suggest that do the
same thing?  Never can have too many tools to do the same thing.  This
is Linux after all. ;-)

B


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