[Cuis-dev] gui elements size

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi,

Nicola has just suggested a different idea (in a separate thread). I can 
confirm that the following works:

./cogspur/squeak -vm-display-X11 -fullscreen 
./Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/Cuis6.0-5772.image

Thanks Nicola!

Cheers,

On 5/3/2023 3:37 PM, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Hi Ruda,
>
> Welcome to the Cuis community!
>
> (inline)
> On 4/29/2023 5:18 PM, rsykora--- via Cuis-dev wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>>
>> I tried to run cuis on my linux. I followed
>> https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/blob/master/Documentation/GettingStarted.md 
>>
>> and the system starts after
>> ; cogspur/squeak Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/Cuis6.0-5772.image
>> .
>>
>> Is there a way to define the size of the window that is opened (in which
>> cuis smalltalk runs)? For me it is, unfortunately, both too big for 
>> my screen
>> and too small to accommodate the cuis windows (and there are no 
>> scrollbars).
>
> I don't know if there is a way to do it from the VM or from the OS, 
> but this seems to do the trick:
>
> ./cogspur/squeak Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/Cuis6.0-5772.image -d 
> 'DisplayScreen hostOSWindowPosition: 0 at 0; hostOSWindowExtent: 1280 at 740'
>
> What we are doing here is to ask Cuis to run a Smalltalk script to 
> position and resize the main OS window. Another possibility would be 
> to "maximize" it using the mouse.
>
>> After changing the 'Size of GUI elements', saving the image, closing, 
>> and starting
>> again, the selected GUI size is not respected. Must I do something else?
>
> Hilaire has already answered this.
>
>> [It is surprising that 'Set system font' on one hand offers
>> NotoEgyptianHieroglyphs
>> only to tell that the font does not contain ASCII characters and 
>> cannot be used.]
>
> Right. That font can not be used for regular code. But it can be used 
> (for example) for
>     UnicodeString demoAncientEgyptian.
>
>> Thanks for any comments.
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>> Ruda
>
> Cheers,
>


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