lxterminal default geometry

[staffordj]

Hi everybody,

Back in the "olden days" (X11R5, X11R6, Motif, etc.) you would configure X apps in a .Xdefaults or .Xresources file and do an xrdb -merge on it to make them take effect. That no longer appears to be the way it is done.

I want to make the default geometry for lxterminal to be 90x70. I can't find anyway to make this happen.

I'm using LXDE/openbox on Fedora 17.

Johnie

[smr54]

.Xdefaults still works for me. You may need the class name. To get that, I run

xprop |grep WM_CLASS

then click the mouse on the program in question, for example, urxvt. (I don't have LXDE on this).
I get back

WM_CLASS(STRING) = "urxvt", "URxvt"
WM_CLIENT_MACHINE(STRING) = "scott1.scottro.net"
WM_COMMAND(STRING) = { "urxvt" }

In this case, URxvt, rather than urxvt, is the class so I use that name in .Xdefaults.

See if using the class name makes a difference--it will be the second name in the WM_CLASS(STRING) line, I think. I've never quite figured this out, but in openbox, for example, when one uses either application name or application class, if choosing class, one uses the second name in that line

[staffordj]

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, it appears that lxterminal doesn't heed the X resources database.

Johnie

[george_toolan]

If everything else fails you could use an alias or rename the lxterminal binary and use a little wrapper script which checks if a geometry option was supplied and use your default values otherwise.

[PabloTwo]

What's so hard about doing "man lxterminal" ??

--geometry=CHARACTERSxLINES

Set the terminal's size in characters and lines.

No, it's not quite the same thing as setting actual screen pixel size, but surely, using the --geometry= option should let you at least approximate a particular screen size with a little experimentation. If you want to control the terminal size/location on screen using ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources, then why not use either xterm or rxvt-unicode instead of lxterminal?

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BASH:~/-> cat .Xresources 
!! File : .Xresources
!xterm*font: -*-fixed-medium-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*

XTerm*title: xterm
XTerm*background: #011622
XTerm*foreground: WhiteSmoke
XTerm*pointerColor: white
XTerm*pointerColorBackground: #011622
XTerm*cursorColor: #EBD27D
XTerm*internalBorder: 3
XTerm*loginShell: true
XTerm*scrollBar: false
XTerm*scrollKey: true
XTerm*saveLines: 1250
XTerm*multiClickTime: 250
XTerm*Geometry: 135x50+110+60
XTerm*renderFont: true
XTerm*faceName: DejaVuSansMono
XTerm*faceSize: 12
XTerm*VT100.eightBitInput:  true
XTerm*VT100.eightBitOutput:  true

URxvt*title: urxvt
URxvt*depth: 32
URxvt*saveLines: 12000
URxvt*loginShell: true
URxvt*internalBorder: 3
URxvt*cursorColor: orange
URxvt*pointerColor: yellow
URxvt*foreground: WhiteSmoke
URxvt*background: rgba:0000/0000/0000/2222
URxvt*geometry: 140x50+110+60
URxvt*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=13
!URxvt*font: -*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
!URxvt*boldFont: -*-courier-bold-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
URxvt*scrollBar: false
URxvt*scrollBar_right: false
URxvt*scrollstyle: rxvt