[plug] Controlling the initial geometry of a program under X

[David & Lisa Buddrige]

Hi all,

Please ignore my last email; I figured it out - by restarting X the new font
is picked up.  8-)

thanks heaps to everyone who helped. 8-)

David.
-----Original Message-----
From: David & Lisa Buddrige <buddrige at wasp.net.au>
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Date: Thursday, 11 April 2002 7:58
Subject: Re: [plug] Controlling the initial geometry of a program under X


>Hi all,
>
>>Its probably not discussed on usenet much, because its all in the manuals.
>>
>>      -geometry geometry
>
>
>thanks heaps; that's got it.
>
>I now have a .Xresources file that contains:
>
>    emacs.geometry:    50x50+0+0
>
>which is a lot better. 8-)
>
>Now I'm trying to resolve the fonts problem; the issue is that the font
that
>emacs is using is far too big for the little screen I've got. Even when
>emacs is maximised, it is still wrapping at column 57, rather than at 80.
I
>have entered the following line into my .Xresources:
>
>emacs.font:    -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-100-100-100-c-70-iso8859-1
>
>however this does not seem to have affected the size of the font used by
>emacs at all.  I have tried a couple of other different fonts (as obtained
>by running xlsfonts | less ) however regardless of what font I enter into
>.Xresources, the font that emacs displays is the same.  Can someone
indicate
>what I've not done right?
>
>Thanks heaps in advance
>
>David Buddrige
>