RE: x-windows opening up too large

[Stuart Adamson <stuart dot adamson at evolution dot net>]

I've had this problem using XFree86 on linux, eXceed on NT 
and Xfree86 on Win2000.  I've also had native windows windows 
open at silly sizes (especially on machines with autohide tool 
bars).

It's a window manager / application problem.  For some reason 
for application thinks that it should open a masive window.  
This might be because of ...
 * It remembered the last size the app was open - maybe from 
   a display at a higher resolution
 * It wants to display a big table or something so opens a 
   bigger window
 * It's got itself well and truely confused.


Doesn't really help you ;(


Stuart



> -----Original Message-----
> From: J S [mailto:vervoom@hotmail.com]
> Sent: 08 August 2002 10:07
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: x-windows opening up too large
> 
> 
> I know this probably seems like a window manager problem but I tried 
> openbox, mwm, twm, fvwm2 and all suffered the same problem as 
> window maker.
> 
> 
> >JS,
> >
> >No, sorry, I can't recommend a window manager.
> >
> >As I have said before, I am a terrible X Window System user. 
>  I just happen 
> >to be able to understand how to implement the X Server and 
> how to get 
> >everything compiled and packaged.
> >
> >You will have to hope that someone else can answer your 
> question about 
> >which window manager to use.
> >
> >Just as a side note: You can stick with the TWM window 
> manager that is 
> >installed with the XFree86-bin package, or you can install 
> lesstif which 
> >includes the MWM window manager, or you can install the 
> openbox window 
> >manager.  All of these are available as Cygwin setup.exe 
> packages. There 
> >may be one or two that I am forgetting as well.
> >
> >Harold
> >
> >J S wrote:
> >>Harold,
> >>
> >>Can you recommend a decent window manager that doesn't have 
> these sort of 
> >>problems?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>
> >>JS.
> >>
> >>>
> >>>Sounds like a WindowMaker problem to me.  You should 
> probably ask the 
> >>>people
> >>>that made WindowMaker.
> >>>
> >>>Harold
> >>
> >>
> >>> >
> >>> > An X application we run on xfree86-windowmaker is causing
> >>> > problems for users
> >>> > at my work because when it pops up new windows, these 
> windows are
> >>> > sometimes
> >>> > too big to fit on the screen, or the scrollbar is missing.
> >>> >
> >>> > Is there something I can do to fix this other than using 
> >>>ALT+left/right
> >>> > mouse clicks to resize these windows or better still stop them
> >>> > from opening
> >>> > up so large? Incidentally this problem doesn't happen on Exceed.
> >>> >
> >>> > Thanks for any help.
> >>> >
> >>> > JS.
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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