On Mon, 26 May 2014 14:49:57 +0200
Josip Deanovic <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings!
> 
> Windowmaker 0.95.2 introduced a new tiled maximization known as
> Maximus.
> 
> Windowmaker NEWS file says:
> Maximus/Maximumize. A new tiled maximization, configured with a
> keyboard shortcut. Using it will maximize the window to the greatest
> area such that it will not overlap any other window of the same
> workspace. This can be configured in WPrefs in the "Keyboard
> Shortcuts" page, or in the config file with "MaximusKey".
> 
> 
> 
> I have noticed that in some particular cases a window does not get
> properly resized when Maximus is used.
> 
> I'll try to describe the issue:
> 
> - create two windows, one over the other so that they don't overlap
> - use Maximus on the upper window
> - observe the number of pixels between the upper (Maximused) window
>   and the lower window
> - deMaximuse the upper window so that it returns to it's original size
> - move the lower window a pixel or two toward the bottom of the screen
> - use Maximus on the upper window again
> - observe the number of pixels between the upper (Maximused) window
>   and the lower window, notice that the the number of pixels
> (distance) between windows has changed
> - deMaximuse the upper window so that it returns to it's original size
> - continue repeating the above steps and notice that the distance
> between windows changes and at some point the upper window will even
> overlap the lower window by few pixels.
> 
> I have found that the maximum distance between windows might reach
> 11px and the minimum distance might be -3px (overlaps the lower
> window by 3 pixels).
> 
> Note that moving the upper window does not affect the distance between
> windows when Maximus is used while the moving of the lower window
> does.
> 
> 
> So, yet another complicated description from me. I anticipate a long
> thread. :-)
> 

Are any of those windows terminals? They tend to have resize increment
(use `xprop | grep increment` to find it), which may explain changing
gap size, I haven't been able to reproduce the -3 pixels thing.

Amadeusz


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