Re: Window manager for power users?

From: Adam Gibson (agibson_at_ptm.com)
Date: 06/27/05

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    Tony Nelson wrote:
    > At 4:35 PM -0400 6/20/05, Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
    >
    >>On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:35:27 -0400
    >>Adam Gibson <agibson@ptm.com> wrote:
    >>
    >>[Tall windows, short screen - vs. Metacity][
    >>
    >>
    >>>I see I am not the only one bothered by that too. Changing screen
    >>>resolution has become much easier now that we have xrandr than it used
    >>>to be. Windows created bigger than the screen can handle has come up
    >>>quite a few times for me in the past year. You would think the window
    >>>manager would be smart enough to know that a 800 vertical pixel window
    >>>will be useless on a 768 pixel desktop. Any buttons at the bottom will
    >>>not be unusable without trying to manually shrink the window by clicking
    >>>on the top of the window, dragging it down, releasing, moving the window
    >>
    >>What seems really strange to me is that SOMETIMES you seem to be able to
    >>grab the window and drag it upwards by holding down the alt key while
    >>dragging (and the top portion of the window goes underneath the Gnome
    >>panel). Sometimes, this doesn't work and Metacity refuses to drag the
    >>window upwards any farther than the panel.
    >>
    >>
    >>>up some, and repeating if it still doesnt fit. I think any window that
    >>>is created should be autoreduced to the max display resolution(minus non
    >>>hiding panels too) if the X or Y is bigger than the desktop. It sure
    >>>sounds good anyway.
    >>
    >>I've done the resize/drag/resize/drag thing a number of times here. :)
    >
    >
    > How about right-click on the window's tab in the bottom taskbar, choose
    > Resize, pick an edge by pressing an arrow key, then resize by arrow keys or
    > moving the mouse. Press Enter to end the mode. (Determined by experiment,
    > there may be a simpler way.) Move works also. This doesn't seem to
    > require being able to click on an edge of the window, so it should work
    > even if the edges are off the screen.

    Thanks for the tip. I noticed the resize feature of the taskbar before
    but didn't know how to use it and forgot about it since then. I am sure
    this is documented somewhere but never took the time to look for it.

    I do still think that if a window appears that is bigger than the
    desktop an auto-resize of the Y window size to the maximum screen
    resolution and placing the window at the top of the screen would be
    useful and would make things more user-friendly. There probably is a
    window manager that does that somewhere on the net. 

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