---- 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
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