Re: Adjusting window resizing

[Lyndon Drake <lyndon stat auckland ac nz>]

Hi,

Thanks, that was exactly the info I needed :-).

Lyndon

On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 10:11:05AM +1030, NotZed wrote:
> See the set_hints() function in the gnome-terminal.c sourcecode.
> 
> There is also a section in the zvt manual concerning window hints,
> it should still be uptodate (its just a copy of the same function
> infact).  The padding and so forth for the zvt widget are because
> it renders a little border around itself.
> 
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/zvtterm/zvtterm-window-hints.html
> 
> > A number of X apps (e.g. Emacs and gnome-terminal) restrict resizing to
> > character sized increments (as opposed to pixel sized increments).  Can
> > anyone point me to a way to implement this?  Presumably I will need to
> > know something about the font metrics of the window governing the size of
> > the window - in the case of gnome-terminal I suppose that this is the zvt
> > widget.

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