[openbox] Forcing windows to be resizeable?

Mikael Magnusson lists at bak.och.fr.am
Wed Mar 11 07:27:46 EDT 2009


On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Neil Bird wrote:

> Around about 07/03/09 03:07, Dana Jansens typed ...
>>  If a window can't be resized, and you managed to force it to resize
>>  somehow, it's pretty likely that it's not going to behave how you are
>>  expecting, or well at all.  If it's possible I'd go after the
>>  application which has such badly designed windows and get it fixed
>>  there so it will actually resize.
>
>  Understood;  it was the movability of the thing that was more what I was
> interested in (IIRC it's the GNOME keyring password entry box that, in the
> seemingly ever increasing fascist nature of the GNOME devs,  takes over
> *everything* and dumps itself immovably in the middle of the screen.
>
>  I wanted to be able to move it out of the way until I was ready for it.

In that case it probably isn't even a window, just some widgets drawn on 
top of a static screenshot of what you had on screen before it appeared. 
Stuff like that is why I haven't upgraded from gnupg 1.4.

--
Mikael Magnusson



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