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Force application to start with lower resolution

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Sunday, April 16th 2006, 6:06am

Force application to start with lower resolution

My resolution is 1280*1024, but a particular application is much easier to read if I change the resolution to 1024*768 before I run it. Is there a command to run an application with a certain resolution, but not change the desktop resolution?

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Sunday, April 16th 2006, 11:06am

RE: Force application to start with lower resolution

Try --geometry or -geometry followed by the screen geometry. For example,

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kmail --geometry 1024x768+0+0
will open KMail with size 1024x768 in the upper left corner of the screen.
Bram Schoenmakers
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Monday, April 17th 2006, 8:53am

Perfect, thanks. :)