multiwindow mode

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

I've started to find that a lot of the X apps we use in our company actually 
work better in multiwindow mode.

For example, one application we have was practically unusable before because 
some of the pop up windows it opened were greater in size than the desktop, 
and these windows didn't have scrollbars either. Despite changing the window 
properties in my window manager (windowmaker) they still got oversized.

Now with multiwindow mode, the window behaviour is much better. Can someone 
explain that to me please?! What makes me slightly nervous though is that so 
many of my customers want to use multiwindow mode yet this is still 
relatively new and development on it seems to have slowed down recently.

Anyway the main reason I've written is because in multiwindow mode the  
window resizing doesn't always work as expected, and also I have one 
particular problem where the window menu bars (on the pop up windows) are 
placed just above the desktop so I have to resize the window to get at them. 
Has anyone else seen that? Would really like to get a fix for that if anyone 
can help.

Thanks,

JS.

Is this the impression you get that most xfree users now are running in 
multiwindow mode? Also is there still development going on with multiwindows 
mode or has that come to a halt for some reason now? I only ask since I 
haven't seen quite so many emails on it lately.

JS.





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