On Thursday 20 December 2007, Glynn Clements wrote: > Hamish wrote: > > [*] d.resize: I've given up on bloaty dumbed-down GNOME and never liked > > the look of KDE, so I've gone back to using the fluxbox WM. There xmons > > can not be resized by dragging on a corner for some reason. I've never > > noticed this for any other X app, which makes me wonder if it is xmon > > specific after all. We discussed this some time ago: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/8709/ > > but this is another matter, and rather low priority. > > It's a WM bug, but one which isn't likely to affect applications other > than XDRIVER. Most X applications either never set size hints or > always them. XDRIVER only sets them while a client is running. > > For another example of WMs failing to handle non-trivial use of size > hints, see the "xemacs trouble maximizing window" thread(s) at: > > http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/xemacs-beta/2006-May/thread.html > > Both fluxbox and metacity are identified as failing to handle that one > correctly; I never had any trouble with FVWM.
On the topic of light-weight WMs how about XFCE ? I switched from KDE to it about a year ago and have never looked back. cheers, -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Resource Laboratory http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev