Kevin Maguire wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I use an application (Action Remedy) which throws up popup windows
> with details of user's poroblem, work done so far, etc cetera. When I
> use KDE (rarely) these windows are re-sizeable. I note that the
> window contents are re-drawn (slowly) as the resize is in operation,
> this may just be a feature of my default style of course. Under
> blackbox I cannot resize these windows, there is no "grabber-thingy"
> at bottom-right corner, and Alt-Button3 brings up the right-angled
> cursor but the window size stays fixed. Is this a bug or a feature
> in the application, or blackbox.
>
> For diagnostics I ran xprop on both windows, one in a running kde
> session and one while running blackbox. Platform is Intel, RedHat 6.2
> (sort of), bb compiled from source file blackbox-0.61.0.tar.gz. xprop
> output follows, I can provide other diagnostics too if required.
>
My suspicion is that the app is disabling the function.resize option
using the MWM hints (this hint is intended to disable the resize option
in a window menu). Blackbox <= 0.61.0 interprets this to mean that no
resizing at all should be permitted, which is reasonable, since there's
no real reason you'd want to just disable a window menu's resize option.
Nonetheless, a number of apps seem to do this.
Blackbox 0.61.1 included a tweak that should allow you to resize such
windows via MOD1+right button. If the problem remains with 0.61.1, let
me know and I'll look into it further.
Jeff Raven
