terminal, open program and set screen dimensions

[alphaamanitin]

I want to open a program, specifically ADOM www.adom.de, and set the scree to a resolution that it will play under.

I currently have to maximize the terminal screen, then run adom. Is there anything I can do that makes it where the screen automatically adjusts to the screen size needed when I run the program? I assume I would then add this to the ~/.bashrc alias lists and make a new alias for the command.

Thanks,

AlphaA

[Toz]

Add the following command to ~/.bashrc:

alias adom='xfce4-terminal --geometry 77x25 -x /path/to/adom'

...make sure you change "/path/to/adom" to be the real path to your adom executable.

To have it take effect for your current terminal session, source the newly updated .bashrc file:

. ~/.bashrc

Then in the same terminal window, run:

adom

[alphaamanitin]

Great! Thanks, works perfectly.

Id

[neu2buntu]

another method is to use gdevilspie, you can set rules for size, position on screen, start minimized etc. once your rules are set you can just run a bash script to run the backend devilspie, so there will not be an extra window open i.e gdevilspie.

oh and the script can be run from your startup programs ( the gear at the top right of the screen > startup applications )