Re: gaim won't resize horizontally

From: Nori Heikkinen (nori_at_sccs.swarthmore.edu)
Date: 01/04/05

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To: Jacob S <stormspotter@6Texans.net>, debian-user@lists.debian.org

    on Mon, 03 Jan 2005 06:04:33PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen insinuated:
    > on Mon, 03 Jan 2005 04:50:51PM -0600, Jacob S insinuated:
    > > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:39:31 -0500
    > > Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> wrote:
    > >
    > > > hey all,
    > > >
    > > > after upgrading to gaim version 1.1.0, i can no longer resize the
    > > > gaim buddy window horizontally to smaller than 216px. i tried
    > > > downgrading to version 1.0.2, but the problem persists. has
    > > > anyone else seen something like this? did i somehow remove a
    > > > package that allows me to resize gtk windows horizontally? it
    > > > seems unlikely, since i can still resize the IM windows to as
    > > > small as i want.
    > > >
    > > > if no one else has seen this, i'll file a bug on gaim. i'm not
    > > > positive it's not just me, though ...
    > >
    > > Are you not able to resize it at all horizontally, or just smaller
    > > than a certain width?
    >
    > i can resize it horizontally, but just not smaller than 216 pixels
    > (said that in the body, but not in the misleading subject line -- my
    > bad).
    >
    > > If it's the latter, I've noticed this since at least 1.0.
    >
    > yeah, come to think of it, i see this on my home computer, too, which
    > is running 1.0.0.
    >
    > > I just assumed they used a gtk variable to keep it from being
    > > downsized past a certain size.
    >
    > yeah, but why?! i HATE that kind of thing.

    aha. a little reportbug is a wonderful thing:
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=270142 (filed by a
    friend of mine, no less!)

    the gist of this is that it won't resize any less because it needs the
    space to show all of the bottom buttons ("get info"; "away"; &c.). if
    you tell gaim not to display the buttons at all, or to just display
    them as pictures, then you can resize the window. seems slightly
    weird to me, but at least there's a way around it!

    thanks. sometimes you just need to post it to the world in order to
    find your own answer ... :)

    </nori> 

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