Re: x-windows opening up too large

["J S" <vervoom at hotmail dot com>]

I know this probably seems like a window manager problem but I tried 
openbox, mwm, twm, fvwm2 and all suffered the same problem as window maker.


> JS,
>
> No, sorry, I can't recommend a window manager.
>
> As I have said before, I am a terrible X Window System user.  I just happen 
> to be able to understand how to implement the X Server and how to get 
> everything compiled and packaged.
>
> You will have to hope that someone else can answer your question about 
> which window manager to use.
>
> Just as a side note: You can stick with the TWM window manager that is 
> installed with the XFree86-bin package, or you can install lesstif which 
> includes the MWM window manager, or you can install the openbox window 
> manager.  All of these are available as Cygwin setup.exe packages. There 
> may be one or two that I am forgetting as well.
>
> Harold
>
> J S wrote:
> > Harold,
> >
> > Can you recommend a decent window manager that doesn't have these sort of 
> > problems?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > JS.
> >
> > > Sounds like a WindowMaker problem to me.  You should probably ask the 
> > > people
> > > that made WindowMaker.
> > >
> > > Harold
> >
> > > >
> > > > An X application we run on xfree86-windowmaker is causing
> > > > problems for users
> > > > at my work because when it pops up new windows, these windows are
> > > > sometimes
> > > > too big to fit on the screen, or the scrollbar is missing.
> > > >
> > > > Is there something I can do to fix this other than using 
> > > ALT+left/right
> > > > mouse clicks to resize these windows or better still stop them
> > > > from opening
> > > > up so large? Incidentally this problem doesn't happen on Exceed.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any help.
> > > >
> > > > JS.
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
> >
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