Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set size to windows in Openbox in local config WAS: Something eats my memory

[Floyd Anderson]

On Di, 11 Apr 23:12:12 +0200
Miroslav Rovis <miro.rovis@××××××××××××××.hr> wrote:
>On 170411-20:37+0200, Miroslav Rovis wrote:
>...
>
>Part of this quest is solved, pls. see:
>
>gkrellm [Was: Something eats my memory - please help]
>https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-user&m=149194283531062&w=2
>( marc.info was faster this time than gossamerthreads.com (now
>lists.gt.net )
To be honest, I read not the whole and little bit confusing thread. So I 
have not realised there is a multi-part issue to solve. I saw only one 
precise question in the quotation of wabe’s response out of the corner 
of my eyes.

>If -g ... is the switch to get the geometry, i.e. the position of the
>window, be it gkrellm or urxvt, when set into
>~/.config/openbox/autostart (or started from the command line), then...
Geometry (implemented as structure or bitmask) is not restricted to hold 
only the position. It can also be used to specify the size and other 
window attributes.

>Then what is the switch to get the windows of be of a certain size. I
>didn't find that in "man urxvt"... Could that be in Xorg manual or where
>is that?
Do not guess; RTFM or at least, search it! ;-)

I always have this in my mind. And when you cannot find what you are 
looking for, read the ‘SEE ALSO’ man page section to get ideas for the 
next step. But you are right, man page urxvt(1) is not really verbose 
about the -geometry (or -g) option but this does not have to be the end 
of the journey. As `qlist rxvt-unicode` shows, urxvt comes with several 
resources. One of them is a man page of category seven (Miscellaneous).

Looking at it `man 7 urxvt` and searching for ‘geom’ and “Eureka!”, the 
third and last match:
    IRC*geometry:           87x12+535+542
looks good. Let’s try it with your requirements...

>So, e.g. if I want to start a window of size 200x50 or 1000x500, how to
>I do that?
...and (if installed) examine the attributes with `xwininfo` or `xprop` 
or simply by <Alt+Space> + resize and looking at the centred size tip.
    urxvt -bl -geometry 200x50+0+0;
    urxvt -bl -geometry 1000x500+0+0;

This should be answer your second part — completely resolved with 
offline resources. But I highly recommend not to stop the journey here 
because of what if urxvt(7) has never been written?

Do you know the commands ‘whatis’, ‘apropos’ (symbolic link to ‘whatis’) 
or their equivalent ‘man -k’?

Try it out: `man -k geometry` or `apropos geometry`. You see several 
category three (Library calls) references. This kind of information may 
be hard to understand sometimes but if you have time you only can win.

For instance XWMGeometry(3), you already know X -> Xorg and WM -> window 
manager (BTW: MWM -> Motif Window Manager as Jonathan earlier pointed 
out) and Geometry is what you are looking for.

Sounds that not interesting to have a look at it? If you think so, you 
will see at the description section what the argument to the -geometry 
parameter of urxvt probably expected. If you are still hungry, go online 
and search for other examples and meanings like at [1] or find [2] which 
seems to have some tips about ‘devilspie’, ‘GKrellM’ and others.

[1] <http://imagemagick.org/script/command-line-processing.php#geometry>
[2] <https://sites.google.com/site/tstyblo//wmctrl/>

P.S. I love short precise questions and qualified answers as well and 
usually hate walls of text — but this was a need for me. Hope that helps 
to help yourself.

-- 
Regards,
floyd