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Re: Can't resize windows in Cygwin/X 1.12.1
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: ssier at msn dot com
- Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 14:22:30 +0100
- Subject: Re: Can't resize windows in Cygwin/X 1.12.1
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On 12/07/2013 22:40, STEVEN SITTSER wrote:
> Until recently I was using Cygwin/X under Cygwin 1.5.18 on Windows XP. The
> windows displayed by our in-house X applications had resize borders - I
> could resize the windows by grabbing an edge.
>
> Now, I am using Cygwin/X 1.12.1 under Cygwin 1.7.14 on Windows XP. Now,
> the windows displayed by the same applications have a fixed size - I can't
> resize them by grabbing the edges. (This is true both when I run the exact
> same executables under both Cygwin versions, and when I build the
> applications separately under each Cygwin version.)
>
> I've been hoping that there is some sort of configuration setting that
> controls this behavior, but with many hours of digging through man pages,
> web pages, and miscellaneous documentation, I have been unable to come up
> with anything. I was thinking maybe something that would go in .Xdefaults,
> or a command line parameter for startwxin, etc.
The .XWinrc file [1] can be used to do some overriding of window styles, but
it seems that it doesn't allow a sizing frame to be added. Perhaps that's
something I need to look at adding.
[1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/man5/XWinrc.5.html
> I would like to be able to restore the window behavior to what it was in
> Cygwin 1.5.18 without making changes to the source code of our
> applications. However, if my symptoms imply that we've got something coded
> wrong in our applications, then any advice on fixing that would be
> appreciated. I don't do any XWindows programming myself (and I'm only just
> barely familiar with XWindows in general), but I can pass any information
> on to those who do.
If using the latest X server doesn't resolve your problem, then possibly this
is a bug with the mapping of the X windows decoration hints into a native
Windows window style.
Can you install 'xprop' (using cygwin setup), and show the output you get from
running that, then clicking on the window which doesn't get a resize frame.
> As a test I ran xclock on an old Sun system via PuTTY under both Cygwin
> versions. On both the window was resizable. So, resizable windows do work
> in that case, at least.
>
> I am (I believe) using the default XWindows setup from my Cygwin
> installation - that is, the XWindows server is being started by a shortcut
> in the Windows "Startup" folder with a target of "C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe
> /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe"
>
> Thanks for any help anyone can provide.
--
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
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