On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 08:30:35PM +0000, Tavis Ormandy wrote: > Hello, I have another FAQ suggestion based on a question I've seen quite > frequently on irc and email, etc. feel free to modify/correct/rewrite :)
Yes, you're right. I'll add it as 5.16. > Q. When I Maximize an application, sometimes I get gaps around the > edges, and other times I don't. What's going on? > > A. The ICCCM specification allows applications to specify certain > properties the window manager should honour, such as aspect ratio > (PAspect) or increments to be resized in (PResizeInc). Of course, > sometimes these properties won't perfectly match the size of your > desktop (or ewmh struts), if that should happen, you will get gaps. > > In general, the application will have a good reason for doing this (for > example, a terminal window may not want to have only part of a column > visible), but you can make fvwm ignore the hints with ResizeHintOverride. > > > (The docs suggest only Max/Min size is ignored with ResizeHintOverride, > but that doesnt seem to be true...not that I'm complaining, I like this > feature! (well, i'd prefer it didnt clobber P/USPosition, but I can live > with that!)) Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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