[R] Is it possible to modify the position of the graphic window ?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, 8rino-Luca Pantani wrote:

> I see.
> Thanks for your highly appreciated help, Prof. Ripley.
>
>
> I've been reading the x11 help file, only after people from this list told me 
> that it is the default in Linux
>
> Please consider that I recently (and definitely) moved to linux from Windows, 
> and I still need to re-learn a lot of things.
>
> I did'nt know that with "options" was possible to change the x11 windows.
> I typed the following, and it worked
> options(device= x11(xpos =500))
> moving the window on the left
> Now, if I'm allowed to push your patience a little further, how can I make 
> this change permanent ?

Better to use resources.  But you can use (in .Rprofile)

options(device=function() x11(xpos=-1))

The resources version would be to put in ~/.Xresources something like

R_x11*geometry: 700x700-0+0


> Thanks again
> Ottorino Pantani
>
> Prof Brian Ripley ha scritto:
>> On Linux the default graphics device is X11(), and not so on Windows.
>> 
>> ?X11 tells you no less than *two* ways to do this: I do wonder why you 
>> don't just read the help file?
>> 
>> ?options (see 'device') tells you how to set up a default device which you 
>> could use to change default arguments, but using the X11 geometry resources 
>> is the canonical way to do this.
>> 
>> On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, 8rino-Luca Pantani wrote:
>> 
>>> There's a Renviron file under /etc/R, but there are no lines with
>>> "position (x, y)".
>>> 
>>> Henrique Dallazuanna ha scritto:
>>>> In the Windows the file Rconsole contains the position(x,y) of the 
>>>> graphics.
>>>> I don't know if file have the same name in Ubuntu.
>>>> 
>>> 
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