Alan Taylor posted on Sun, 20 Mar 2016 15:05:03 -0300 as excerpted: > I would expect Windows can somehow control the size of a particular > window, but I have no idea how it is done outside of the program that > created the window. It's strange that the problem dimension won't > respond to manual adjustment. This is Windows 10, which may have some > left-over window pane tweak from Windows 8 (TIFKAM) which did funny > things with windows panes for hard-core users. Users like me were fine > with Win 8, 8.1 and I am (mostly) fine with Win 10.
FWIW, I believe that kde/kwin's window rule thing is a rarity on X/Linux as well, tho of course on X/Linux you choose your own X window manager, there's no real X default (tho various distros pick their own default desktop environment and with it a default window manager), as there is on MS. But for window managers that don't offer that level of built-in control, there's various commandline utilities, like wmctrl, that offer it. That's similar to the way MS window management worked a decade and a half ago, on '98. Only the third party window management utilities on MS, at least back then and I'd imagine it's similar today, tended to be more GUI oriented, much like KDE/KWin's window rules, while the third party utilities on Linux tend to be more commandline oriented, thus directly supporting scriptability and the ability to invoke specific commands, possibly via hotkey, that do specific things. Regardless, I've come to depend on and assume the ability to override window behavior, to the point that if I ever left KDE/Plasma/KWin and it's window rules behind, if the window manager I chose in its place didn't have a similar feature of its own, I'd be spending quite some time over a week or so hacking up scripts to be run by wmctrl or the like, and likely either a start-with X and whatever desktop environment background script, to watch for and match specific windows and run the appropriate wmctrl command to force the behavior I want, or wrapper scripts for the various normal executables, with the wrapper enforcing the behavior I want. Because I've become so used to simply being able to override an application's normal behavior that I'd have a hard time living without that ability, now. I really and truly like being in command of how stuff behaves on my desktop, and if it doesn't work the way I think it should, I arrange to force it to work the way I want it to. Which as much as anything explains why I'm so much more at home on Linux than on MS or OSX (and Gnome on Linux) as well. They assume a much less demanding user that's simply content to live with what the programmer decreed. I'm anything but! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
