Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP and wmii

[Burnie West <west ieee org>]

On 03/29/2013 09:10 AM, Elle Stone wrote:
> This is not a response to your request for which sections of Gimp code
> are involved - sorry! However, wmii is a tiling window manager,
> meaning it wants to put all windows side by side, no overlaps, perhaps
> that is a clue to the behavior?
>
> Probably no one has responded because wmii is not so commonly used as
> other window managers. Would you be willing to install perhaps
> another, non-tiling window manager (I use Icewm myself) to see if the
> problem persists? That would help pinpoint whether tiling per se is
> involved in the problem.
>
> Also, does the odd behavior ever stop, with a resulting stable display
> of the windows? Can you use/have you tried single-window mode?
>
> Elle
I hved a similar problem with my dual-screen setup - the way I work around it is 
to switch to single-window mode and then switch back to multiple window mode, 
which I normally use.
> On 3/29/13, Andrew Shadura <bugzilla tut by> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:34:39 +0400
> > Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > > I wonder, how to understand the silence
> > > Typically lack of replies means that nobody knows a possible solution.
> > > Sorry about that :)
> > Well, as I said many times, I don't need a solution, I asked about
> > where to look for a specific piece of code, so I don't need to study
> > the whole source code of GIMP. I need to find the code which defines
> > the size of toolboxes which apparently fails to react properly to
> > oversized windows, so it withdraws the toolbox window. There are so
> > many modules which seem to be responsible for window management, that I
> > can't easily find what exactly every of them does.
> >
> > --
> > WBR, Andrew