I am trying to resize the rxvt window size.

[kent41]

Hi all

I downloaded devilspie and installed but when I run devilspie I get the following message and I have to push
Ctrl Z to get a prompt. However the size of the window remains

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sh-3.00# devilspie
killall: devilspie.bin: no process killed

Then Ctrl Z the nessage

[1]+ Stopped(SIGTSTP) devilspie
sh-3.00#

Is there a way that I don't have to push Ctrl Z to get a prompt because I want to use the rxvt in a script?

Thanks

[MU]

sh-3.00# devilspie
killall: devilspie.bin: no process killed

You can ignore, it is needed for a restart only.

Is there a way that I don't have to push Ctrl Z to get a prompt because I want to use the rxvt in a script?

run it in background:
devilspie &

You might add this command to /root/.xinitrc , before the line
exec $CURRENTWM

Then devilspie is always active.

But if you want to resize only one rxvt from a script on creation, try something like:
rxvt --geometry 10x10 -e 'ls&&read -n 1 a'
This would display a very small rxvt, show the directory listing of the current folder, and wait for a keypress.

Mark

[rarsa]

And just so you know:

Ctrl-z sends the process to the background but stops it.

If you want it to keep it running you have to either start it with the "&" at the end as Mark suggests to start it and send it to the background.

Or press Ctrl-z and then execute "bg 1" (or whatever the job number was reported when you pressed Ctrl-z)

[kent41]

OPTION 1

For others future reference the adding of 'devilspie &' to '/root/.xinitrc' before line 'exec $CURRENTWM' works for all sessions started from puppy's console icon. Also you can change the widow size by making changes in the /root/.devilspie/test.ds file.

Option 2

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rxvt --geometry  80x51 -e top && -n 1 a

This code is executed from a mouse click on a desktop icon script and displays a stretched window with 'top' data.

I think most users would have to include quotes around 'top && -n 1 a' portion of the code, however my downloaded puppy ver. 2.12 will not work with these quotes. I have tried using quotes with other code and it must be removed for the code to work.

The second option works great on my computer and thanks very much for the help.

kent

[GuestToo]

Puppy's top is really Busybox and does not resize itself when the console window is resized ... htop does work well when the window is resized, and has other useful features

[kent41]

Puppy's top is really Busybox and does not resize itself when the console window is resized ... htop does work well when the window is resized, and has other useful features

GuestToo

Yes when you run top in a terminal window and then change the size of the window, top does not fill out the window with data and that is exactly why I needed to change the window size before I ran top.