Bug 86032

Summary:	-geometry option no longer works
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Nick Leverton <nick>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Nick Leverton 2004-07-26 19:19:44 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.3)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

Konsole no longer honours the standard xterm '-geometry' option - or it might be accepting it but interpreting it as pixels.  It's certainly no longer xterm compatible, I specify '-geometry 80x43' and always get a tiny window.  This used to work in KDE3.0 for Konsole, and still does for Xterm to give me an 80 char x 43 line terminal.  '--vt_sz' works but makes konsole incompatible in its options.

Comment 1 Nick Leverton 2004-07-27 00:16:54 UTC

>          AssignedTo|konq-bugs kde org           |konsole-devel kde org
>             Product|konqueror                   |konsole

Blush.  My apologies.

Nick

Comment 2 Kurt Hindenburg 2004-07-27 19:38:46 UTC

Is there a consensus that KDE/konsole's --geometry should equal xterm's -geometry?  If so, it shouldn't be too hard to fix this.

-geometry geom               size (in characters) and position              

--geometry <geometry>     sets the client geometry of the main widget

Comment 3 Waldo Bastian 2004-07-28 18:03:56 UTC

--geometry specifies the size in pixels in all KDE applications and did so in KDE 3.0 as well, changing it breaks compatibility for people who use this option to specify a size in pixels. In general konsole is not command line compatible with xterm so having one option more or less that is different doesn't seem like a big deal to me.