I previously reported that I could not get my new chillblast PC running
fedora 31 to support any screen resolution higher than 1280x1024 (though
running windows 10 on the same machine provided full screen resolution) but
after following a suggestion to reinstall linux, I tried the F32 xfce live
iso and found that the resolution problem was solved.

I wish I had done that a week earlier!

After that, it took some time to restore most of my full working
environment partly because there seem to have been a lot of changes in
fedora (including introduction of something called 'snaps' that I had not
previously encountered).

On that machine I had previously set .ctwmrc to work without window titles
because the title bars took up too much space and I could not find any way
to change that. So I have been working without title bars for some time,
though (though I still set window titles for use in the iconmanager, e.g.
to select minimised windows to maximise).

I tried reinstating title bars a few times, but they always took up too
much space.

However, I tried again today, and to my surprise the title bars were as
narrow as they had previously been on other machines, so I have reinstated
them, with a couple of useful buttons, e.g. delete window and full zoom.

Perhaps this sudden improvement in ctwm behaviour is a result of a font
being added as required by some other package -- possibly libreoffice, the
most recent addition to this machine.

Linux has a few too many surprises, but this one is useful.

Aaron
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs

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