Re: Request for elementary information on startup defaults

Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér wrote:
>
> ---- 8< ---- Manish Jain ---- 8< ----
>> I installed AbiWord yesterday on FreeBSD-7.1 after tolerating - and
>> finally giving up on - the *Office suites of Unix. AbiWord seems to be
>> definitely better, but - despite whatever information I could go through
>> - I can't get it to do a few simple, elementary things :
>> 1) I want the default font to be Bitstream Vera Sans (regular, 12
>> points), rather than Times New Roman. Saving this change in normal.awt
>> seems to have no effect. The next time AbiWord starts up, the font is
>> again autotragically set to Times New Roman.
>> 2) I want the default dictionary to English (GB) and not English (US).
>> Saving this change to normal.awt fails again.
>> 3) I want AbiWord to start either maximised or in the state it was last
>> closed in. I have no idea how to do this. AbiWord always seems bent on
>> choosing its window size and position at startup even if the user is
>> religiously praying for the inverse.
>> Can somebody please provide me any hints on how to achieve the above ?
> ---- 8< ---- Manish Jain ---- 8< ----
>
> Are you using the systemwide normal.awt or do you have it as a per-user
> file? Have you edited the file manually?
> As for the size, there is a --geometry parameter you can pass to the
> window to set the size.
>
> Yours
> Morten

I'm pretty sure some of the startup window size stuff is in
~/.AbiSuite2/AbiWord.Profile

Also, generally, you need to modify the Normal style in normal.awt and
not just the font/language directly - search the website for more info -
should be some on the Wiki.

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