Question about X window control

[cgw at alum.mit.edu]

In article <38B3FF12.9254AEDF at earthlink.net>, Jay Freeman <jayfreeman at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a brand new Python guy (and like it). I'm working on an information
> kiosk system running on Linux. It uses a touch screen and plays avi
> video files. I'm using Popen3() to call xanim to display them. I'd like
> to play them full screen but there doesn't seem to be any parameter to
> xanim to allow that. If I can't do full screen I would at least like to
> be able to center the xanim window,

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Well, this question doesn't have a lot to do with Python but I'll answer it
anyway.

xanim has a -S option to control scaling and a -W option to control
window placement.  If you type "xanim --help" you'll see it all spelled
out in great detail.