Thanks for your reply Jon. I'm happy to report that I tried the 32-bit version of your updated XWin.exe which worked perfectly.
On 4 August 2015 at 18:30, Jon TURNEY <jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk> wrote: > On 03/08/2015 16:43, Derby Pride wrote: >> >> I have recently upgraded Cygwin/X which upped the version of X Server >> up to 1.17.2 (sorry, I didn't note the version that I was previously >> using). I now enter the following into the Cygwin terminal: >> >> export DISPLAY=:0.0 >> XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -listen tcp & >> xhost + >> >> On my remote machine (a virtual RHEL5.2) I give the following commands: >> >> export DISPLAY=%server_ip%:0.0 >> firefox & >> >> Firefox launches successfully on my server machine. However, the >> maximize button is disabled (all other buttons are present and >> enabled). Resizing the window by dragging the edges works as expected >> but there appears to be no way to maximize (double clicking the title >> bar does not work either). > > > Thanks for reporting this issue. > > I can reproduce this on a Centos 5 VM. > > This is interesting. The firefox window has a WM_NORMAL_HINTS which > specifies a maximum size of 32767x32767. > > Currently, the maximize control on the window frame is supposed to be > disabled if a maximum size is specified at all, but it looks like that > wasn't quite working correctly until recently. > > I've adjusted the logic a little bit so that the maximize control is not > disabled if a maximum size is specified, but it's larger (in both > dimensions) than the Windows virtual desktop size (as then maximization will > not exceed the maximum size specified) > > I've built a snapshot with this change. Perhaps you could try that and see > if it improves things for you? > > ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/x86/XWin.20150804-git-862bf7a8412567ae.exe.bz2 > ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/x86_64/XWin.20150804-git-862bf7a8412567ae.exe.bz2 > > -- > Jon TURNEY > Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
