Bryan Richter wrote: > At work, I'm using CentOS 5.2 running as a VMWare client on a Windows XP > host. CentOS has Gnome running by default, which runs the window manager > Metacity by default. > > VMWare, like other virtual machine apps, provides a set of client-side > functionality that allows things such as client-to-host copy/paste. The > particular function I am interested in is the bit that handles the > virtual machine's window being resized. When the window is resized, > there's some magic that makes X realize it should resize its root window. > > This all works. Metacity somehow catches wind of the resizing. When the > X root window is resized, Metacity resizes all its workspaces. If it has > to, it moves and resizes its own client windows so everything shows up > on the resized X root window. > > Of course, I want to be difficult. I don't like Gnome; I use the Ion3 > window manager. Ion3 does not, unfortunately, catch the same hint that > Metacity catches. > > I assume that the X server is sending some signal that Metacity catches. > Does anybody have any clue what that signal is? If I can figure that > out, I can hopefully patch Ion3 to handle it. > > -- > Bryan Richter > >
Are the vmware tools on the guest running? Could Gnome be starting/running these but Ion3 not? Mike _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
