x-windows opening up too large

[J S]

Thanks Thomas,

I'll try your ideas out tomorrow when I goto work but I just wanted to say 
that the geometry flag is fine for the main application window running, it's 
the windows that pop up from that which I don't seem to have any control 
over.

But running the window manager on the remote machine sounds like a good idea 
- I'll give that a go, but surely that will be slower won't it?

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>Usage of the -geometry flag looks like the following:
>
>xterm -geometry 80x35+100+100
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>This creates an xterm which is 80 columns wide and 35 rows tall positioned 
>100 pixels down from the top edge and 100 in from the left edge of the 
>screen.
>
>One thing you can do is manually size and position the client window the 
>way you like it, then run "xwininfo".  It will give you the corresponding 
>-geometry value to use in the future.
>
>>From: Staf Verhaegen <staf.verhaegen@imec.be>
>>Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>>Subject: Re: x-windows opening up too large
>>Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 13:33:10 +0200
>>
>>J S wrote:
>> >
>> > Are there any options I can put in the .Xresources file which will 
>>constrain
>> > the windows within the screen?
>>
>>X programs that conform to the X standard calling convention support a
>>-geometry option that allows to define the size and the placement of the 
>>top
>>level window to create. The format should be available when typing 'man X' 
>>and
>>look for GEOMETRY SPECIFICATION.
>>
>>Staf.
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