XWinrc and window placement

[Harold L Hunt II]

Jeff,

Jeffrey J. Gray wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just upgraded my cygwin build for the first time in about a year and I'm 
> loving all the new stuff!  A couple questions:
> 
> 1-What can go in XWinrc?  I see a news posting on the cygwin/xfree86 web 
> page that you can put custom commands in the tray icon, but the link to 
> the sample XWinrc file is broken.  Could someone post such a file?

I believe you are referring to the example.XWinrc link on the project 
home page (http://xfree86.cygwin.com).  If so, the broken link has been 
fixed.  The sample .XWinrc file has all of the documenation in it that I 
know of (Earle F. Philhower III wrote it).  There has not yet been a 
section written in the User's Guide for this feature.

> 2-new xterms always appear in the upper left corner of my screen, all on 
> top of each other.  Are there any provisions for 'smart placement' of 
> windows?  How would I turn this on?  Preferences in XWinrc perhaps??

No smart placement, but you can change the placement of the windows 
using the geometry flags (generic to almost all X apps, please seek 
other documentation for this).

Also, this implies that you are using startx (I think), when you should 
most likely be using startxwin.bat instead.  Give it a try, see if you 
like it.  I will eventually update the startx scripts, but I don't 
understand them as well as the batch file, so startx will always be a 
little out of date.

> Thanks for the help, and kudos to all the devs out there.

No problem, glad you like it.

Harold