Re: conditional position/geometry?

"Marion Hakanson" <[email protected]> wrote on Apr 10, 2006:

>One challenge has been that exmh stores its geometry values (window positions
>and sizes) in its exmh-defaults file as absolute pixel values, with no regard
>for the resolution or size of display.  I've mostly worked around that by
>telling exmh to not try to remember these geometries, but a couple of items
>have so far eluded me.

I use several versions of "exmh-defaults".  I give them names
such as "exmh-defaults.abc:0"  (would be for display abc:0).

A symlink, named "exmh-defaults.switch" points to the version
currently in use.

The "exmh" on my path is a shell script that manipulates these
files, then invokes the real exmh.

The manipulation - check $DISPLAY to see if we need to change which
version of the file to use.  If we need to change, then copy the current
exmh-defaults to exmh-defaults.switch (to update the previously used
version).  Then remove the switch link, and replace with the one
needed for the current display.  Then copy exmh-defaults.switch to
exmh-defaults before starting the real exmh.

It works pretty well.  When installing a new version, I configure one
of these to my liking.  Then I copy it to the other version files.
Then all that is needed is adjusting the display sensitive size
parameters on the other versions, as they are used.

 -NWR