[GRASSLIST:5574] Re: display monitor geometry

[Ian MacMillan]

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, 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.

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.

GRASS 6.0.0beta1:~ > d.info -d
dimensions: 640 480

GRASS 6.0.0beta1:~ > eval g.gisenv
GISDBASE=/Users/ianmacmillan/grass
LOCATION_NAME=utm11
MAPSET=ianmacmillan
GRASS_WIDTH=90
GRASS_HEIGHT=90
GRASS_GUI=tcltk
MONITOR=x0

I guess I don't get it.  Any ideas?

Thanks,
Ian



On Jan 31, 2005, at 4:13 PM, Hamish wrote:

>> How do I set the display manager geometry?  Is there some parameter I
>> set in the .tcltkgrass file?
>> I am using osx 10.3, and 5.7.
>
>
> d.info (or xwininfo) tells you the current settings.
>
> set with GRASS_WIDTH and GRASS_HEIGHT environmental variables in the
> shell (affects all new monitors).
>
> resize existing monitors with d.resize.
>
>
> see:
> http://grass.ibiblio.org/grass60/manuals/html60_user/variables.html
> http://grass.ibiblio.org/grass60/manuals/html60_user/d.info.html
> http://grass.ibiblio.org/grass60/manuals/html60_user/d.resize.html
>
>
>
> Hamish