On 11-12-2014 23:44, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:39:00PM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: >> On 11-12-2014 21:35, Ken Moffat wrote: >>> I've just built this: has anyone found a *reliable* way to resize >>> it ? When I opened it with a document, it came up low-down on the >>> screen, with a not-very-tall window. Dragging the top of the window >>> extended it. But after I had moved the window further up my screen, >>> pulling down on the bottom, and trying to pull out the sides, mostly >>> do not work. >> >> ĸen, perhaps this is a rare occasion where I could help you. >> >> I understand that in the up and down sides, you can resize the height, >> but not in the left and right sides, for changing the width. >> >> I just tried and confirmed this in XFCE. But if you try the corners, >> then you will have the facilities for resizing height and/or width. >> >> This seems a particularity of XFCE. >> >> With LXDE, I tested and it woks normally, along the four sides and/or >> four corners. >> >>> Pulling the edges to expand it seems to work _if_ the display is >>> smaller than the current page size. I mostly prefer evince to >>> epdfview because there are too many "official" PDFs which come up >>> blank in epdfview - the last one I remember was a council PDF about >>> some roadworks, where the map was blank. >> >> Same with me. >> >>> I suspect I'm going to have to go back to an older version of >>> evince. >> >>> ĸen >> >> >> Therefore, if it is confirmed that you are using XFCE, I have the >> impression that older versions won't matter. >> > Fernando, thanks for the comments. > > I only use xfce on one desktop (which mostly just runs releases) > and on my netbook. The development machine uses icewm, and I also > use icewm in BLFS-qemu (but there, maximizing the window might be > adequate). > > Meanwhile, I've been looking at the past releases on the machine > which now uses xfce for 7.6, and in that the 3.12 version was > comparatively hard to grab. > > Perhaps current gnome is just too-new for (mostly unmaintained) > icewm. Unfortunately, icewm is my most-productive wm. > > I took a look at atril, again, but perhaps I'll stick with 3.12 if > it still builds. I need to think about what will cause me least > aggravation. > > ĸen >
ĸen, I've just installed icewm. Everything works in evince for resizing: four corners or four sides. Problem is that the cursor only changes format, when you are at the appropriate position, *after* you keep clicked the left mouse switch. But the page needs modification in the personalized menu, the && are at the wrong places and the last one (&&) is, of course, not necessary. -- []s, Fernando -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
