setting size of XDRIVER

Also, is there a way to get the d.mon provided window sized
automatically, i.e. without benefit of mouse interaction?

The XDRIVER released with 4.0 didn't have any way to do this.
This has since been added and probably the latest driver on
moon.cecer.army.mil has the mechanism in it.

You have to set the following Unix environment variables before you
run d.mon:

These control the size of the window
    XDRIVER_HEIGHT
    XDRIVER_WIDTH

These control the placement.
    XDRIVER_LEFT
    XDRIVER_TOP

They are all in units of pixels. If you don't set them,
they default as follows:
    XDRIVER_HEIGHT 400
    XDRIVER_WIDTH 450
    XDRIVER_LEFT 10
    XDRIVER_TOP 10
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