Re: 2.3.1_rc1
Re: 2.3.1_rc1
- Subject: Re: 2.3.1_rc1
- From: John P <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:35:07 -0700
Shouldn't this be the default?
A *new* window should never be created that will take over the entire
screen. If you want to enlarge the window, you should be able to, but
no app should be able to take over the whole view.
Does that even make sense?
Make it a configurable option, if somebody has a specific use case,
but iThink that defaulting to "cant be too big" is a really good idea.
Anybody else?
JP
On 21 Aug 2008, at 14:25, Merle Reinhart wrote:
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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John Davidorff Pell
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