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Most clients have a set of command line options that control some of their appearance and behavior characteristics. These options control X resource specifications such as colors, fonts, window geometry, and so forth. (You can use resource specifications to configure client appearance and behavior on a much wider scale. However, resources are more complicated to set than the command line options.)
You can use these command line options when launching any client from a scoterm window. Ordinarily, the effects of a command line option are temporary, only existing for the current session. However, if you end your Graphical Environment session while the client you configured with command line options is still running, the client reappears in its same configuration in your next session.
For example, if you start the xclock client from a scoterm window, using the -geometry command line option to place the window at the upper-left corner of the screen, and then end your Graphical Environment session, the next time you resume the session, xclock will still be located in the upper-left corner. Note, however, that if you move the window to a new location, quit the session and then resume it at a later time, the xclock window is located in the upper-left corner according to your command line argument, and not in the location where you moved the window before quitting the Graphical Environment.
Command line options also take precedence over all other resource specifications, unless the command line setting is more general than a specified resource definition.
A client's manual page lists all of the command line options that are valid to use with that client. However, most clients support the options listed in ``Standard client command line options''.
Standard client command line options
| Command | ||
|---|---|---|
| line option | Alternate option | Description |
| -bg | -background | sets the background color of a client's window |
| -bd | -border | sets the border color of a client's window frame, if you are not running pmwm or mwm |
| -bw | sets the border width in pixels, if you are not running pmwm or mwm | |
| -display | -d | sets the name of the display you want the client to use |
| -fg | -foreground | sets the foreground color of a client's window (usually the text) |
| -fn | -font | specifies a font name |
| -geometry | sets the size and location of a client window on the display | |
| -iconic | starts the application in iconified form | |
| -name | specifies a name for the application being run | |
| -rv | -reverse | reverses foreground and background colors |
| +rv | does not reverse foreground and background colors | |
| -title | sets the string that is used for the title in the window frame | |
| -xrm | passes a resource specification to the resource manager |
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