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- From: warsaw@nlm.nih.gov (Barry A. Warsaw)
- Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
- Subject: Re: kind of -geometry wxh+x+y for a new screen
- Message-ID: <WARSAW.93Jan26153002@anthem.nlm.nih.gov>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:30:02 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.185113.169699@eratu.rz.uni-konstanz.de>
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- Reply-To: warsaw@nlm.nih.gov (Barry A. Warsaw)
- Organization: Century Computing, Inc.
- Lines: 40
- In-Reply-To: hoehle@inf-wiss.ivp.uni-konstanz.de's message of Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:51:13 GMT
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- Joerg-Cyril> I read the lemacs NEWS but found no way to set
- Joerg-Cyril> x-screen-defaults so that I can open a secondary
- Joerg-Cyril> lemacs screen with a like with "-geometry -0+0" in my
- Joerg-Cyril> .emacs.
-
- My understanding is that x-screen-defaults doesn't work. I've started
- using X resources for everything and have had great results. Its the
- right way to do these things anyway, IMHO.
-
- In my .Xdefaults I define resources for a RIGHTSCREEN a LEFTSCREEN and
- a few other screen types that I like. These include geometry, font
- and color combinations. Then I have keys bound to C-x 5 <key> to
- start up a RIGHTSCREEN or LEFTSCREEN or whatever. Works great. I
- also have default emacs resources to handle my first screen. So doing
- everything through the X resources is fine except:
-
- 1. It seems you have to restart emacs whenever you do an "xrdb -load"
- because lemacs can't re-read the resource database. Jamie, maybe
- you can add a lisp function x-reread-resources???
-
- 2. I can't seem to find a way to specify different initial screens.
- -name switch doesn't seem to work. Maybe there should be a -screen
- switch to specify the screen-name of the initial screen???
-
- More on #2 above:
-
- If I start up lemacs with "emacs -name foo" I would expect one of the
- following things to happen: the initial screen comes up with a screen
- name of "foo", or f.identify (from tvtwm) should identify the
- Class.res_name as "foo". None of this happens (note that starting
- editres for example with "editres -name foo" does set the
- Class.res_name to foo). So if I have some screen attributes in my
- .Xdefaults like "foo*pointerColor: Red", this never takes effect.
-
- Now, I could be doing something wrong, but is anybody else able to
- have different initial screens definied in their .Xdefaults, and be
- able to use these screens by starting lemacs with -name?
-
- -Barry
-