[ale] resizing an X window from the command line?

Larry Richardson larryr2 at bellsouth.net
Fri Jan 9 21:30:26 EST 2004


The geometry command will set the initial window size.  I think he is 
asking if there is a way to resize the window after it has already been 
created.

Danny Cox wrote:
> John,
> 
> On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 13:32, John Wells wrote:
> 
>>Seems I've done this in the past, but can't for the life of me recall how.
>> Is there a utility that allows you to resize and X window that's already
>>be spawned from the command line?
> 
> 
> 	See the -geometry argument.  For xterm (and other terminal emulators),
> you can say -geometry 80x52 and get colums and lines (I think). 
> Otherwise it's in pixels.
> 




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