resize application's X terminal

Jiri Olsa olsajiri at gmail.com
Mon Apr 7 01:18:12 PDT 2008


Nicolas George wrote:
> Le nonidi 19 germinal, an CCXVI, Jiri Olsa a écrit :
>> yes, that application is started from the xterm, 
>> and it can do whatever application is allowed to do.
> 
> Then you can try the two following commands:
> 
> printf '\033[8;20;120t'
> 
> (see ctlseqs.txt from xterm doc for details on this one)
> 
> echo $WINDOWID
> 
> These are shell, but of course any application can do the same.
> 
> On the other hand, I personally would very much dislike an application that
> tries to move around the xterm from which I started it.
> 
> Regards,
> 

thanks, it works for me.

It looks like it is only for xterm, correct?
Or does it suppose to work in every X terminal.


Jiri Olsa



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