resize application's X terminal

[Samuel Thibault]

Jiri Olsa, le Mon 07 Apr 2008 10:18:12 +0200, a écrit :
> Nicolas George wrote:
> > Le nonidi 19 germinal, an CCXVI, Jiri Olsa a écrit :
> >> yes, that application is started from the xterm, 
> >> and it can do whatever application is allowed to do.
> > 
> > Then you can try the two following commands:
> > 
> > printf '\033[8;20;120t'
> > 
> > (see ctlseqs.txt from xterm doc for details on this one)
> > 
> > echo $WINDOWID
> > 
> > These are shell, but of course any application can do the same.
> > 
> > On the other hand, I personally would very much dislike an application that
> > tries to move around the xterm from which I started it.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> 
> thanks, it works for me.
> 
> It looks like it is only for xterm, correct?
> Or does it suppose to work in every X terminal.

WINDOWID is exposed by all X terminals I know.

Samuel