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
