On Tuesday 30 November 2004 00:58, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:45:51AM -0500, sly wrote: > > so, still how can an app be set to open on a certain size window? > > This depends either on the app itself (which may or may not have a feature > to do this) or on the window manager you're using (which also may or may > not have such a feature). Metacity, the default Gnome window manager, is > supposed to Just Do The Right Thing, and I believe part of that is > remembering maximized/not-maximized state. nad xterm you configure ever so easily in ~/.Xdefaults xterm*geometry: 80x60 -- Cheers John