[PLUG] What do you call it? LibreOffice preview screen?

[Dale Snell]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:54:14 -0700, in message
20170726185414.25f65782 at Devil-Bonobo, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> OK, the pointer trick didn't work, but I fudged it by taking a
> screenshot to the clipboard, opening it in the GIMP, and taking note
> of the size of the resulting graphic, which was 1120 x 1060. I added
> this to the launcher for Evince, but afterward it wouldn't launch.
> From the command line I got:
> 
> evince -geometry 1120x1060+150+10
> Cannot parse arguments: Unknown option -geometry
> 
> So that leaves me wondering what the -geometry option belongs to. 

The -geometry option is part of X.  (See the man page for X(7) for
an explanation of the geometry option.)  Some programs accept that
option and pass it through to X.  Emacs, for example, has a "-g"
or "--geometry=" option, which it passes to X.

In looking at the man page for Evince, I didn't see any mention of
a geometry option.  You can open the viewer normally, or in (-f)
full-screen mode.  For what it's worth, I couldn't find a geometry
option for my favorite viewer, qpdfview, either.  However, that
one at least has the grace to remember its size, position, and
some other state between sessions.

--Dale

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