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Re: left or top taskbar & multiwindow
- From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 15:41:32 -0500
- Subject: Re: left or top taskbar & multiwindow
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- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Fabrice,
Kensuke is working hard on a new multi-window window manager (see his
announcement in today's mailing list log) that will replace the existing
functionality. I think this new window manager and multi-window mode
will be released within a month, so there is not much point in debugging
problems with the current multi-window mode.
Harold
Fabrice Coudert wrote:
Hi folks,
I usually like to set my taskbar at left border of the desktop (more
vertical space on the desktop, more space for the task button to show
up, all menu near the same area). But when using this configuration i'm
experiencing two minor bugs in multiwindow mode :
1) with taskbar at left, area near the right edge of the desktop are not
refreshed. The size of the area not refreshed is exactly the size of the
taskbar at left. If I take a look into XWin.log I can see that the work
area size is the actual desktop size truncated by the size the taskbar,
but when using xev I can see that the coordinate are not translated. The
same bug appears if the taskbar is set on top ; in this case area at
bottom of the screen are refreshed.
A solution is to add -multimonitor : the size of the work area will be
set to the wall desktop and all will remain ok.
I joined XWin.log with and without -multiplemonitors.
2) new window are opened under the taskbar, not at the edge of the taskbar.
If the taskbar is on left, a bit of the window is masqued by the taskbar
and the rest appears, so I can drag it with the mouse to show all the
window. But, if the taskbar is on top, all the window bar is hidden by
the taskbar and I can't drag it with the mouse. A solution is to do
something like ALT+SPACE, M (for move), and use arrow keys to move it.
This is a bit annoying.
I started to look into the source but i will not get enought time to
continue. I think that the problem is that work area doesn't need to be
truncated in multiwindow mode, auto-hidden or not
(winAdjustForAutoHide). But, a fix should be done in the window manager
to give correct coordinate for new window, depending on the position of
the taskbar, and if it is auto-hidden or not.
Fab.