is there a piece of c code that can set the terminal window

tinieprotonjam · 01-27-2007, 01:05 AM

I was just wondering if there is a piece of code in C that I can put in my program so that when I run the executable file, it will instantly set the size of the terminal window to a specific size, so that I can format the layout of the display on the window. thanks.

matthewg42 · 01-27-2007, 02:39 AM

There is no standard way AFAIK. However, some terminal emulators allow control using DCOP and similar tools. For example, the KDE terminal emulator, konsole, may be resized by making a function call via dcop like this (example is using command-line dcop tool, but there's a C API to make dcop calls).

Code:

dcop konsole-4695 konsole-mainwindow#1 setSize 800x600

The -4695 is the PID of the konsole instance in question.

makyo · 01-27-2007, 07:20 AM

Hi.

I don't do X Window programming, but if I really wanted to do something like that, I'd start with a look at:

Quote:

Depending on the valuemask, the XChangeWindowAttributes function uses
the window attributes in the XSetWindowAttributes structure to change
the specified window attributes. -- excerpt from man XChangeWindowAttributes

I would guess that this could become very complex very quickly.

Best wishes ... cheers, makyo