On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 10:43:29AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

> > Because 'snap to edge' was mentioned and I had never looked into it before
> > I wanted to see how it worked.
 
> > But _how_ does it work? I have experimented with different values of
> > 'edgeSnapTreshold' but whatever I try don't see any 'snapping' when
> > moving windows around.

 
> Set the number to something like 20, makes it easy to see.  No move the window
> towards a screen edge slowly and watch the move window which tells you the x,y
> coordinate of the window as it is moved.  When you get get within edgeSnap
> Threshold of the screen edge the window will 'snap' to the screen edge.

> As an example say your screen is 1024 pixels wide and you are moving a window
> right.  With a threshold of 20 set when you reach 1004 pixels the next pixel
> you move right will jump the window to 1024.
 
> Currently this edge snapping only happens with the toolbar and the screen
> edges.

Thanks. I see it now. I had been using much too small values.
What I don't quite see is how usefull something like this can be.
Occasionaly it might even become irritating.

Alexander

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