hi , thanx for your pormpt reply.
I reported this problem to nedit. waiting for their reply. Is there any workaround for this ? If there pls let me know how to fix. You have mentioned that in your setting width_inc = 9 . How to set this ? If it set to 9 this porblem will go ? Pls let me know it any solution is there for this . thanx & rgds srivathsa Dominik Vogt wrote: > 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 ^_^ ^_^ > > -- > Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]