Support --geometry argument

[Marc Ordinas i Llopis]

gnome-terminal supports the standard --geometry argument for passing the desired window dimensions when starting. I wish this was supported in terminator.

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

I agree we should probably support this, marking as a wishlist, targetted for 1.0

[Thomas Hurst (tom.hurst)]

Added to trunk.

[Marc Ordinas i Llopis (marcoil)]

Great, thanks for the fast fix!

[Marc Ordinas i Llopis (marcoil)]

In the last released package, it seems that terminator interprets the --geometry argument as a pixel value, making it behave very differently to gnome-terminal, which interprets it as a characters value.

To test, just do terminator --geometry=80x40, a very small window appears.

[Markus Birth (mbirth)]

I think terminator should behave the same way as gnome-terminal does and interprete the geometry values as rows*cols instead of pixels.

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

While that might make sense at the moment, I'm a little wary about doing that because in the future we will be adding the ability to save layouts, and so you'll be asking it to show X rows and Y columns across multiple terminals which may have different font sizes.

[Thomas Hurst (tom.hurst)]

I think if you want a way to specify how big a terminal is in rows and columns of text, you're better off having an option specifically for that, rather than co-opting --geometry and making it impossible to size new windows accurately.

As Chris points out, even if I did like this idea, what happens when layout saving and profiles land and someone has 8pt fonts for a couple of log tails and 12pt for other terms? How big is a character then?

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

On the basis that the saved-layout future will make columns/lines interpretation of --geometry very hard, I suggest we not do it, so I'm setting the bug back to Fix Released.