[openbox] Possible window maximize option

Knute knuteh at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 8 16:06:25 EST 2008


--- On Mon, 12/8/08, János Illés <ijanos at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: János Illés <ijanos at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [openbox] Possible window maximize option
> To: openbox at icculus.org
> Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 2:59 PM
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 21:42, Folderol
> <folderol at ukfsn.org> wrote:
> > Sometimes a badly behaved application will open a
> window too big for
> > the screen, and you can't resize it. It is
> possible to maximise such a
> > window (if you have the maximise icon on the
> right-hand edge of the
> > title bar).
> >
> > This will of course actually *reduce* the size of the
> window so you can
> > see all of it. However, as the window is now
> 'locked' you can't move or
> > resize it.
> >
> > I would like to see an option whereby maximise would
> set the window to
> > screen size (whatever it was previously) but still
> allow me to use the
> > move/resize controls.
> >
> 
> Look at MaximizeVert and MaximizeHorz actions, and bind a
> key to them.
> http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Help:Actions#MaximizeVert
> 

That or MoveResizeTo.

With that one, you can bind so that you can resize the window, and put it anywhere you want it at the same time.

Knute


      



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