On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 03:43:14PM +0530, Srivathsa Rao U wrote:
> hi,
>
> I switched my WM from 2.0 to 2.4.4.
> Now every thing working fine & i got the settings how I want. But
> Iam facing problem with nedit.
>
> Iam working in Unix & using solaris system (sun7).
>
> Iam using " nedit" as text editer everywhere. But after i started
> using new fvwm2.4.4 the size of this nedit is not fixed . For some
> file
> which have more memory like 700k the size ( geometry) is very big .
> But
> it is maintaing the height & only the width is increasing (may be
> arround some 5 time of screen width) .
> It is crossing window size also.
>
> why it is like that. ? How can i correct this?
> This problem was not there in fvwm 2.0
>
> my default geometry for nedit is 80X40.
>
> This is not only my problem . here whoever using 2.4.4 they are also
> facing this.
> pls give the solution .
>
> nedit version - 5.1
> I didnt downloaded nedit at the time of fvwm. It was there.
> In my .Xdefault file i setted nedit geometry as - nedit*geometry: 85X40
>
>
> Attached is the gtar file contains following.
> file - junk --> a file with big memory. if I open this file in
> nedit i am getting problem.
> file - .fvwm2rc -> my fvwm settings.
> file - .nedit -> my nedit settings.
>
>
> But size is changing only for the file conating big memory. why it is
> like that ?
With the files you posted I can reproduce the problem. Actually
it does not depend on the .fvwm2rc, but I need your .nedit file
as well as the data file (using nedit-5.1.1).
What happens is this:
1) Start nedit
2) nedit opens its main window with a width of 803 pixels and
requests a character width (width_inc in the size hints) of 9
pixels (for me). All is fine for now.
3) From the file dialog, load the data file you sent.
4) nedit provides new size hints. It again requests a width of
803 pixels, but a width_inc if 1. Now this is where the
problem starts: according to the ICCCM2, the new requested
width is ignored (honoured only when the window is mapped),
but the width_inc is honoured. So, the window shrinks to a
width of 154 pixels.
5) nedit resizes its window to 803 pixels width. Actually, it
seems to believe it still has this size. Keep in mind that
the character width is still 1.
6) Again, nedit provides new size hints, with a width of 803 and
a width_inc of 9. Fvwm ignores the width as it should and
honours the width . Thus, the width of the interior of the
window is multiplied by 9 which results in a window that is
about 5500 pixels wide :-P
This is clearly a bug in nedit. There is no reason to change the
width_inc to 1. Also, it seems the author misunderstood the way
the size hints work. For other files, nedit neither resizes its
window nor does it provide new size hints.
The reason why you don't see this with earlier versions and
probably not with any other window manager is that fvwm-2.2 and
above is the only window manager I know of that properly
implements changing the width_inc and height_inc hints.
Please report this to the nedit developers.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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