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Let X11 window open in specific size and position

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5 I installed zathura via homebrew from this github repository. It works well, but the window which zathura creates is an X11 ( XQuartz ) window which can't be controlled with BetterTouchTool . So I only can manually resize and reposition the window. Instead of installing an additional window manager I'd then just let zathura spawn all it's windows in a certain size and position. I know about the .Xdefaults file in my home directory, but since zathura itself is not an X11 application I can't just write e.g. zathura*geometry: 1050x750 My question is : How can I manage to let a non- X11 application (in this case zathura ) which spawns an X11 window, spawn all windows in a certain size and position by default? Versions: OS: OS X 10.11.6 Homebrew 1.3.2-62-gdce8938 zathura 0.3.7 ...

Using bridge utils to connect two computers via Linux

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5 4 I have been using bridge utils previously to connect my network connected computers to a single interface on my Linux computer. The problem I'm having is when I installed a new Linux (with Slackware) the two connected computers cannot even ping each other. Basically the computers are connected as: client - server - client | [Internet] So I am trying to get the two clients to connect to each other. Both can access the Internet, firewalls are shut off at both clients when testing. Internet is on eth0, and I have one bridge set up as bridge name interfaces br0 eth1, eth2 ip addr br0 and ip route show shows respectively inet 10.0.0.1/24 brd 10.0.0.255 10.0.0.0/24 dev br0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.0.1 So it seems to me like a call from my client ...