** Reply to message from Rick Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:42:23
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> On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 14:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
>
> > Ah. Thank you, Reuben. This make sense.
> >
>
> Reuben's advice was very good. There might be another aspect, too. If
> you scale the geometry, you get a different sized window but the data in
> the window might still be as large, thus you will see less data at one
> time. You might check the app to see if it will allow further tweaks
> on components to scale them. For example, xterm allows for you to
> select font size; try the following two commands and look at the
> difference:
>
> xterm -geometry 80x24+0+0 -fn 7x14
>
> and
>
> xterm -geometry 80x24+0+0 -fn 10x20
>
> Both open xterm windows at the upper left corner of the screen, the
> windows are both 80 characters by 24 lines, but there are two different
> fonts. Not all X apps will allow such changes of components, and
> some will force the changes to be in an app-defaults file rather
> than specified on the command line, but it might be worth exploring
> what options are available.
Thanks, Rick. As it turned out for this particular app, all I had to do was pass it the
-geometry 800x600
argument to the app name and it came up perfectly. Since the app is running on a HP-UX
box, it apparently does not recognize the long version of the --geometry argument so
it only takes the single dash.
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