opening four gnome-terminals into pre-defined positions

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:40:16AM -0400, Digimer wrote:
>
>  When working on certain projects, I like to open four gnome-terminal
>windows in a particular pattern. Specifically;
>
>1. 80x25, anchored to the top-left of the screen
>2. 120x25, anchored to the top-right of the screen
>3. 80x25, anchored to the bottom-left of the screen
>4. 120x25, anchored to the bottom-right of the screen
>
>  Is this scriptable or some other way automateable? I find it quite the
>hassle to always have to spawn/resize/move the four windows every time I
>start my computer.

Yes - you can specify position and size in the command line, so a quick
bash script or alias and you're all set.  Here is one I use putting a
terminal in the top right:

gnome-terminal --hide-menubar --geometry 80x73+0+0
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yours,

William

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