On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 00:30:07 +0100
Aaron Sloman wrote:
> I had also tried the suggestion of recompiling ctwm from source on the
> laptop, but it made no difference to the size of titlebars.
Interesting, thanks for reporting back!
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Carl Svensson
I wrote:
> One unexpected consequence is: on the laptop firefox now detects the lack
> of a title bar and conveniently adds three new symbols on top right on the
> laptop:
>
> underscore -> minimise (has to be retrieved from iconmanager)
> box-> toggle between maximise and
Thanks to the people who have continued commenting on this, possibly
because they had not yet got to my message saying I had by-passed the
problem by abandoning title-bars in ctwm, and adding extra functionaliy
using function keys.
That decision now works well on a relatively small laptop
I'm using Firefox 77.0.1 and whenever I enable the 3D look in CTWM, the back
button in Firefox' context menu gets automatically clicked when I bring up the
menu, thus sending me directly to the previous page, even if my intention was
something else.
After a bit of fiddling around, I managed
On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 21:19:41 +0200
Rhialto wrote:
> On Thu 09 Jul 2020 at 18:29:15 +0200, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> > Or maybe using Latin-1 (LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1)?
>
> Mainly because the UTF-8
> fonts contain so many more characters
I've suspected the same. However, the problem persists
On Thu 09 Jul 2020 at 18:29:15 +0200, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> Could it perhaps be related to your locale, in that CTWM
> chooses the font in some particular encoding that has
> different metrics? What happens if you start CTWM
> explicitly using the "C" locale, as in
>
> LANG=C LANGUAGE=C
Hi,
When 3D borders are disabled, squeezing a window produces a little shift
on x by the border width, and the width of the title grows by 2 × the
border width. Yes, it is a little annoying :)
The fix:
https://github.com/maxatome/ctwm-mirror/commit/6f0f08ca4aea429424a3b3abf455a84c4022a778
> > But now the title bars on the laptop are about twice the
> > desired height.
> It seems to be some kind of combination of font, Xorg version
> and window manager version causing it and I've noticed it in
> TWM, too - but not yet in CTWM. Compiling TWM from source
> gives different results
On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 19:16:41 +0100
Aaron Sloman wrote:
>
> I then had to do a complete reinstall of both windows and linux
>
> But now the title bars on the laptop are about twice the desired
> height.
>
I haven't delved deeper into the issue, but I've noticed strange goings on with
bitmap
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 05:03:41PM +0100, Aaron Sloman wrote:
> After trying and disliking that solution, I've now decided that a better
> solution is to *remove* title bars and
>
> -- slightly increase window border width (to 3) to make borders easier to
>grab for re-sizing
I've found
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