placing a borderless urxvt window?

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Drewgrange · Post by **Drewgrange** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:55 pm

I'm trying to get a transparent borderless urxvt terminal on my desktop, but I'm having a few problems.

1 - Is there a way to position the window? I couldn't find anything in the man page about opening the terminal at a certain location on the screen.

2 - Is there a way to open the terminal along all of the different desktops? For instance when I run torsmo, it is present on every desktop (it also doesn't show up in the desktop preview).

Here is my .Xdefaults file:

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URxvt.jumpScroll: True
URxvt.geometry: 85x25
URxvt.font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:antialias=true:charwidth=8:pixelsize=13
URxvt.scrollBar: False
URxvt.saveLines: 10000
URxvt.borderLess: True
URxvt.inheritPixmap: True
URxvt.tintColor: white
URxvt.shading: 40
URxvt.foreground: white

i92guboj · Post by **i92guboj** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 6:01 pm

Unless the program is specially designed for that (like torsmo) all those are window manager related issues. Which window manager are you using? Most window manager provides options to do that, but you need to configure that behaviour in the window manager, not in urxvt. Another option is to use a dropdown terminal, like tilda or yakuake.

Wietze · Post by **Wietze** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 6:42 pm

You can use the geometry settings

Drewgrange · Post by **Drewgrange** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:58 pm

6th pink, I'm using xfce.

Wietze, I have geometry settings set to make the window a certain size, but I don't see anywhere how to specify where to put the window.

Fenster · Post by **Fenster** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:07 pm

Drewgrange wrote:6th pink, I'm using xfce.

Wietze, I have geometry settings set to make the window a certain size, but I don't see anywhere how to specify where to put the window.

Try this:

-geometry XxY+A+B

X and Y for size, A and B for location.

i92guboj · Post by **i92guboj** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:00 am

For position and size you can use -geometry, to make it sticky thru all desktops you should need the window manager help. I dont know, thou, if xfwm has or not that capability. Never liked xfwm.

Iced-Tux · Post by **Iced-Tux** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:55 am

To get ot sticky on all desktopy try looking into devilspie.

nixnut · Post by **nixnut** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:55 pm

Moved from Gentoo Chat to Desktop Environments.
Desktop stuff so moved here.