Hi. I was wondering if anyone knew how to change the size of a console program run from X. Basically I would like to be able to launch a console program (like vi, nano, giftcurs, whatever) from the GUI but have it open a window of a size I specify for me. An example is when you start xterm you can specify the "-geometry" option. I was wondering if anything like that was possible when starting any console program (seeing as it runs in xterm). Maybe there's a script to create an xterm and execute a command in it. If so, how do I write it? Thanks in advance.

PS: yes I do know that I can just resize the xterm window manually and then type thre command in but I wanted something automatic.

I'm pretty sure you can specify the size of any application by doing something like:

aterm -g 200x100

Yes but I'm not running a *term directly. I'm running a program from a menu and I was hoping to get the launching script to set the size of the window automatically.

'All' console programs recognize the -geomtry option. Even some GUI based progs accept them.

A few examples of which I'm sure they work:

xterm +sb -fg black -bg gray -fn 8x13 -geometry 141x73-0+0 -e usr/bin/slrn -f .jnewsrc --spool

opera -geometry 1182x957+12+0

compupic -geometry 1390x959+0+0

I've got these, among others, in my menu's.

This is what happens when I run the program giFTcurs with the -geometry option:

adz@dom:~$ giFTcurs -geometry 100x100-0-0
giFTcurs: invalid option -- g
giFTcurs: invalid option -- e
giFTcurs: invalid option -- o
giFTcurs: invalid option -- m
giFTcurs: invalid option -- e
giFTcurs: invalid option -- t
giFTcurs: invalid option -- r
giFTcurs: invalid option -- y
giFTcurs - curses frontend to giFT
Usage: giFTcurs [OPTION]...
Options:
-a, --stickchars use 7-bit chars for line drawing
-h, --help display this help and exit
-V, --version output version information and exit
-v, --verbose flood stderr with debugging info
-s, --server=hostort set server address [127.0.0.1:1213]
-p, --profile=name select what profile to use [adz]
-d, --nomouse don't use the mouse

No luck I'm afraid...