[GRASSLIST:5577] Re: display monitor geometry

[Ian MacMillan]

Hi again, thanks for the reply, I think I understand things a little 
better now after some reading, but I still have two problems.  First, 
my .grassrc6 (I think OSX uses this instead of .grass.bashrc) file 
reads:
GISDBASE: /Users/ianmacmillan/grass
LOCATION_NAME: utm11
MAPSET: ianmacmillan
GRASS_WIDTH: 480
GRASS_HEIGHT: 480
MONITOR: x0
GRASS_GUI: tcltk

However whenever I open a raster I get a 640x480 monitor.  Just for 
sh-- and giggles I made a .grass.bashrc file as well that solely has
GRASS_WIDTH=480
GRASS_HEIGHT=480

Still no change in the monitor geometry.  I don't get it.

Problem 2:
Another window geometry problem I am unsure about involves my xterm 
window.  I am getting weird behavior between GRASS and X11.  My xterm 
normally opens with a 110x25+600+65 geometry when I open X11 for the 
first time, or a new xterm once X11 is already open.  This is the 
geometry I have specified in two files ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xresources.  
When I open grass6 using the icon, my xterm opens with a scrollbar and 
scroll length of 2000 (as also specified in these files), but the 
geometry is 80x25+600+65.  If I exit grass, then restart without 
restarting X11, the xterm opens with 80x25+0+20.  I don't understand 
this behavior.  It seems like there is an .xinitrc file or something 
else that grass reads, but I don't know where it is.  Any ideas?

I know this all seems trivial, but I would just like a slicker 
application look.  Why should I have to resize 3 windows every time I 
restart GRASS?  Overall I am thrilled with GRASS, and the work the  
developers put in, but little things like this go a long way to making 
it a friendlier application to us non programmer types.

Thanks a bunch,
Ian

On Jan 31, 2005, at 7:43 PM, Hamish wrote:

>> Hamish, thanks a lot for the reply, but I don't think this works for
>> what I want.  I think that is the way to resize the monitor,
>
> yes.
>
>> but not
>> the display manager (d.m).  I would like the original display manager
>> to come up in the lower left corner of my screen instead of the middle
>> by default, since the geometry (xy position) of the xdriver can not be
>> set (from what I have been told).  Everytime I open grass, I need to
>> resize and move the display manager before I do anything.  Also, my
>> .Xdefaults isn't completely read anymore when I start up grass, so my
>> xterm geometry is also not read.  Basically I would like a nice
>> geometry upon startup of grass, without always needing to resize and
>> move all the windows.
>
> maybe your window manager lets you save settings? Alt-middle click?
> maybe you need to edit the tcl window code..?
> (If you figure this out, it would be nice to tell the NVIZ control
> window to stay at the top right corner of the screen too, instead of
> jumping all over the place whenever you pick a new panel item....)
>
> as for xterm, maybe:
> ln -s ~/.Xdefaults ~/.Xresources
> ?
>
>
>> As for what you wrote, I don't think I understand everything exactly
>> (still a UNIX dunce),
>> I set my GRASS_HEIGHT and GRASS_WIDTH to 90 as a test with
>> g.gisenv set=GRASS_HEIGHT=90
>> however my monitors still pop up as a 640x480 screen.
>
> no, these are unix shell variables not GRASS variables.
>
> export GRASS_HEIGHT=90
> export GRASS_WIDTH=90
> d.mon x4
>
> you can put those settings into ~/.grass.bashrc (or ~/.grass.cshrc)
>
> study:
> http://grass.ibiblio.org/grass60/manuals/html60_user/variables.html
>
>
>
> Hamish