Re: [FreeWRL] (Re)Sizing and Placing FreeWRL's window?

[Joerg S. a. M. <rus...@he...>]

> >Maybe you should test, if "xlogo -geometry 500x500-20+20" or 
> >"/usr/X11R6/bin/xlogo -geometry 500x500-20+20" works as expected under the
> >"Aqua" X11 windowmanager.
> 
> Trying the second one I get "Error: Can't open display:"

Long story:

$ /usr/bin/open -a /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 &
$ export DISPLAY=:0
$ /usr/X11R6/bin/xlogo -geometry 500x500-20+20

> 
> >From what I am gathering it seems in terms of both FreeWRL and MacOSX X11
> isn't involved like say "White Dune" and MacOSX, because when I run White
> Dune X11 comes up, but with FreeWRL it doesn't. 

The white_dune main program runs the equivalent(s) of

/usr/bin/open -a /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 &
export DISPLAY=:0

internally before opening the X11 window.

> So the --geometry option on
> that old help page is aimed at either or both linux FreeWRL or older
> versions of it. 

As described in the man page

$man freewrl
...
 "--geometry" geom
...
           Set the initial window geometry with the usual X window format
           string.

this option is of course aimed for X window (X11) systems. Linux usually 
use X11, while the MacOSX X11 program needs to be started seperatly.

Of course it needs recompiling to switch from the MacOSX aqua FreeWRL version
to the MacOSX X11 FreeWRL version. The MacOSX X11 FreeWRL version is mainly
usefull, if you use FreeWRL on a remote Linux/UNIX terminal.

so long
MUFTI
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