On Wed, 1 May 2002, Kit O'Connell wrote:

> o I am using a fairly small resolution (800 x 600). If I view a workspace
> where one of the applications has a very long title, (such as those xmms
> produces), the specific workspace submenu covers up the main workspace
> menu. This means it is very hard to pick other workspaces since they are
> buried under the submenu.

I haven't had that problem for years! I am sure that I provided a simple
patch to the list long ago.

It would be nice if their could be a .blackboxrc configuration option to
set max width.

Basically, all I do is:

--- src/Basemenu.cc.orig        Wed May 31 15:42:49 2000
+++ src/Basemenu.cc     Wed Jan 10 00:42:45 2001
@@ -312,6 +312,7 @@
     ii += (menu.bevel_w * 2) + (menu.item_h * 2);
 
     menu.item_w = ((menu.item_w < (unsigned int) ii) ? ii : menu.item_w);
+    if (menu.item_w > 200) menu.item_w = 200; // jcr 23/feb/2000 
   }
 
   if (menuitems->count()) {


My patches are at http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/blackbox/patches/


  Jeremy C. Reed
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