On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 8:44 AM Dan Espen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dr Rainer Woitok <[email protected]> writes: > > > Greetings, > > > > On Wednesday, 2019-06-19 14:32:06 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > > >> In message <[email protected]>, > >> Dan Espen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> >So, I'm afraid I can't duplicate your issue but I can see gthumb > >> >is really buggy. > >> > >> I'm not sure that's a proper assumption. > >> ... > > > > Sorry, it was not my intention to fire up a discussion about "gthumb". > > And in particular not on this list. It was just the unwanted behaviour > > of this particular programme which made me look for a way to counter it. > > Sorry, was trying to explain why I could only do so much testing. > > > So let me rephrase my request without mentioning a particular programme: > > > > Is there a way to tell "fvwm" to open a window using a particular init- > > ial size? I'm aware of > > > > Style xxx PositionPlacement HOR VERT > > > > but I'm interested in specifying exactly the other two parameters from a > > normal "WIDTHxHEIGHT+HOR+VERT" X11 geometry specification. And I only > > want to specify an INITIAL size, the user should be able to later manu- > > ally change the window size. > > I don't think Fvwm will do that, especially for an application going > full screen. If the application was in a window, you might be able to > use Fvwm resize. > > However, it seemed to me that it was pretty straight forward to > configure gthumb not to use full screen. > > -- > Dan Espen >
Perhaps try the style option NoPPosition on the window in question?
