Re: 2.3.1_rc1
Re: 2.3.1_rc1
- Subject: Re: 2.3.1_rc1
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:07:57 +0000
G'Day Merle,
Thanks for your tip - I'll certainly look into implementing that. However, if X11 really is passing along the wrong maximum window size (i.e. not catering for the menu bar height) then it's obviously worthwhile correcting that within X11...
Mick
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Merle Reinhart <email@hidden>
> Mick,
>
> For the oversized window, I've had that issue for some apps since
> before Tiger. The solution I use is to constrain the maximum window
> size in the X11 plist:
>
> defaults write org.x.X11 wm_limit_size -boolean true
>
> The restart X11.
>
> At for me and the apps I've seen the oversize windows in, they will
> now get created with a scroll bar and the resize gadget will be
> accessible.
>
> Hopefully, this will work in your app as well.
>
> Merle
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 21, 2008, at 4:53 PM, email@hidden wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running 2.3.1_rc1 on my MacBook Pro which has an external
> > monitor above the laptop screen and the menu bar is on the top of
> > the external monitor. I'm by no means an X11 expert, so apologies in
> > advance for my non-technical description. I'm ssh'ed into my linux
> > box and displaying all the windows of a CAD tools suite back onto my
> > Mac. The CAD tools I'm running are by definition somewhat buggy
> > (because they're Cadence tools) so who knows who's fault this one
> > is. It's also the first time I've tried this command so I don't know
> > if the issue I'm seeing is specific to 2.3.1_rc1.
> >
> > I picked a menu item from one of the Cadence windows that brought up
> > a form to be filled out. The form was so big that it started from
> > just below the menu bar on the external monitor and extended all the
> > way down to just BELOW the bottom of the laptop screen (the resize
> > handle on the bottom right of the form could not be accessed). I
> > needed to fill out stuff on the bottom of the form and I couldn't
> > get at it! The green button in the traffic lights on the top left of
> > the form's title bar did not light up when I hovered the mouse over
> > it.
> >
> > To me, it seems like the TOTAL height of both my screens was sent to
> > the Cadence suite for the purposes of drawing that form i.e. the
> > height was not reduced by the space taken up by the Mac's menu bar.
> >
> > In addition, if I drag the big form's title bar up so that it bumps
> > into the menu bar, the form instantly disappears from the top
> > monitor and reappears below on the laptop's monitor such that the
> > form's title bar is at the top of the laptop screen but the mouse is
> > still near the top of the external monitor.
> >
> > I've probably done a lousy job explaining this because I'm no X11
> > guru. I attached a picture of a slice of the dual monitor setup
> > showing the big form. I just know someone is going to ask me to
> > reinstall the previous X11 and try all this again...
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mick
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