Thank you very much. This is definitely a big step in the right direction. Is there anyway to get the downsized window to always be centered?

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Adam Vogt <vogt.adam@gmail.com> wrote:

* On Monday, December 27 2010, Eyal Erez wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I use a fairly large monitor (24" widescreen). Most applications I open,
>are too large when they take up the entire space, and I end up needing to
>open another application (like a terminal) to shrink them down. I was
>wondering if there's a way to set a maximum window width. So if only one
>application is running, it would float in the middle of the workspace?
>
>It would be a plus if this size can be set per application type (e.g. window
>class).
>
>Thank you,

Hello Eyal,

Attached is a preliminary module which does some of what you ask.
Refer to the included comments and TODO which I suppose could be
followed up on to make a proper contrib module. The example there
shrinks white xterms like http://i.imgur.com/YD3r2.png

Adam

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