Issue 151: XMonad needs to spot resize events in non-floating windows http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=151 Comment #3 by mj.fialka: If I change the XTerm's font in a tiled window, the size of the window remains the same (in the opposite to floating XTerm that does resize) but the geometry change of the XTerm is not detected by XMonad and therefor XMonad does not force the window geometry to the XTerm and thus XTerm does not change it's geometry as it happens in other cases such as when changing layouts or removing/adding a window to the tiled layout or when beying resized using "mouseResize" with "windowArrange" contributed modules. Therefor, when the font is changed to a smaller one, the window remains the same and you can see the application running inside it (can be MC for a good visual reference) in a top-left corner without beying resized to the full window rectangle. That makes this feature of XTerm almost useless which is really pity (see the "off-topic" below). When the font size increases the same thing happens but with the result that only a part of the running application is visible. I hope that's clear now what happens although I am terribly pity I can not add some more technical description... :-( ---off-topic--- I must say that as non-programmer I do not know exactly what XTerm is actually doing. I do not know URXVT but I know I simply love to resize the font size of the XTerm on-the-fly. Is' one of the most handiest things about XTerm. XTerm is also the most precise VT100 emulator around (you can test it with `vttest' to see) and it has also the marvellous Tektronix mode which I use sometimes. To be short - XTerm has many features I actually need to be effective at my work and at home too. Also consider that XTerm is somehow the stadard terminal emulator for XFree86 that is included in most UNIX systems so I would rather not get used to anything else because I can keep my .Xresources still by me and load them almost anywhere and profit of the effective working environment which is exactly the thing XTerm means to me. :-) Please, all reading this, do NOT react on this off-topic piece of text above here directly. I do not like to flame either. If you like to discuss this off-topic called "Why is XTerm so good to MJF?" with me, do `/query mjf' on #xmonad channel instead. Thank you. :-) ---off-topic--- I would like to know what XTerm does. When XTerm changes it's font-size, you can see using `xprop' utility that it did a geometry change (lookup "WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS)" in the output). But I can not see from the `xprop's output whether it signalled something or just resized itself. Help with debugging this and it's connection to what's going on inside XMonad is therefor requested by me as well. I hope we can find some solution together. I started to love XMonad, because it is the window manager ("almost") I was looking for for years. :-) -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings