On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 19:11 -0700, Bryan Richter wrote: > At work, I'm using CentOS 5.2 running as a VMWare client on a Windows > XP host. CentOS has Gnome running by default, which runs the window > manager Metacity by default. > > VMWare, like other virtual machine apps, provides a set of client-side > functionality that allows things such as client-to-host copy/paste. > The particular function I am interested in is the bit that handles the > virtual machine's window being resized. When the window is resized, > there's some magic that makes X realize it should resize its root > window. > > This all works. Metacity somehow catches wind of the resizing. When > the X root window is resized, Metacity resizes all its workspaces. If > it has to, it moves and resizes its own client windows so everything > shows up on the resized X root window. > > Of course, I want to be difficult. I don't like Gnome; I use the Ion3 > window manager. Ion3 does not, unfortunately, catch the same hint that > Metacity catches. > > I assume that the X server is sending some signal that Metacity > catches. Does anybody have any clue what that signal is? If I can > figure that out, I can hopefully patch Ion3 to handle it.
If it is XRandR (as I suspect) then somebody's already done the hard work for you. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=377306 -- Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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