Hi John Spencer Janssen [grin], larswm has an option called tile_resize: when a window with that option is shown elsewhere with different dimensions, the underlying application does not receive an X resize event. Instead, larswm just shows the top-left part of the window, as much as fits into the "viewport" on the screen. Usually that top-left part shows enough information to identify the complete contents of the window. And if the window is then moved back to the 'master' area, the complete windows is visible again. This makes applications like xterm work with larswm. I think that such a 'viewport' function could be useful in xmonad as well, in some form or shape. It saves window resizes, which saves CPU and makes xterm etc. useable. Or is there already some other feature in xmonad(-contrib) to do something like this? Groetjes, <>< Marnix -- Marnix Klooster | Software Engineer, ERP LN Enterprise Server | Infor | (+31 or 0)342-428511 | marnix.klooster@infor.com | Infor Global Solutions (Barneveld) BV | P.O. box 143 | 3770 AC Barneveld | The Netherlands
-----Original Message----- From: xmonad-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:xmonad-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Spencer Janssen Sent: Saturday, 1 March, 2008 0:15 To: xmonad@haskell.org Subject: Re: [xmonad] Newbie: Problems with Layouts and Syntax
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:01:10PM +0100, john spencer wrote:
(ie. aterm, konsole) seem to get resized which results in a nearly blank window when getting them back to the master. I don't know why the behaviour in larswm is different here - any ideas?
Some terminals don't handle resizing very well. We tend to recommend urxvt for that reason.
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