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Old 24th May 2013
thirdm thirdm is offline
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Cool.

Too often we forget the good old -geometry command line options and X resources. People often recommend tiling or other simple window manages to eliminate the silly repetitive fiddling with window arrangements, but geometry can eliminate this with most any wm for your common cases. I recently did something similar to get to my new preferred emacs frame layout (a fixed font taking the left 3/4 of the screen for editing and a variable pitch font taking the rest for reading documentation -- okay, technically I did this with emacs settings not X settings, but same difference). This with fluxbox, but it should translate unchanged when I finally get around to replacing fluxbox with a wm I like on this machine, like cwm or stumpwm (hmm, maybe geometry won't work with stumpwm or ratpoison).
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