[233] in Zephyr_Comments
Variable geometry in zephyr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Thu May 4 06:21:34 1989
To: zephyr-comments@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: beth@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU,
Date: Thu, 04 May 89 06:21:01 EDT
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
I've noticed interest among users in having the geometry of windowgrams
controlled from the description file, rather than having a single placement
determined by Xresources. The ability to filter messages by location is useful,
especially when there is a large quantity of messages to process (example:
returning to one's workstation after a long absence [clicking wildly on the
huge stack of windograms does not work well if there are a few important
messages buried in it]).
I have modified zwgc to implement variable geometry. The "show" command in
the description file now takes a geometry argument. Example:
show +10-0
(Authentication: @bold($aval))
From: @bold($sender)@$fromhost
Class: $class:$instance($opcode)
$message
endshow
displays the message near the lower left corner of the screen.
Sources can be found in /afs/athena/mit/jfc/zwgc, binaries in /mit/jfc/*bin,
(brief) documentation in /mit/jfc/man. To avoid any possible conflict, these
programs load subscriptions and descriptions out of "zephyr.desc" and
"zephyr.subs" (note no leading '.').
--John Carr
