How tiresome to pick the lower-right corner and waggle to fit the Aligned Reads Window to the screen size everytime using consed! It openes Aligned Reads and Trace Windows of sizes by halves on default.
Click here to download a file (thru http), extract, and copy the extract to the project edit_dir folder. The extract file (.consedrc) is invisible. Use ls -al command to see it, and copy it explicitly typing the filename and destination with cp or mv command. Then, what happens?
It opens the Aligned Reads and Trace Windows on top and bottom fitting with the screen size of SXGA (1280 x 1024).
To customize the window size, open the extract file with an editor on UNIX (e.g. gedit) and change the following parameters.
consed.alignedReadsWindowInitialCharsWide: 114
consed.alignedReadsWindowInitialCharsHigh: 8
consed.tracesWindowInitialPixelWidth: 1260
For WXGA+ screen (1440 x 900), change of the window width wider (132 and 1420) works fine. If you like, change the window hight smaller (6 or 7) also. For WUXGA screen (1920 x 1200), these values are 184 and 1880. I think change of the window width to smaller values (c.a. 92 and 1020, I do not know, though) may work for XGA screen. Editting the file with editors on Windows or Mac will change the line separator, I have not yet tried if it works even with wrong line separators. I do not know how to customize the height of Trace Window. I should still waggle the window with five or more traces.