Re: How to keep windows from maximizing over the panel

["Geoff Harrison (mandrake)" <mandrake mandrake net>]

On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 12:44:45AM -0700, George wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 05:52:04PM -0400, raster@redhat.com wrote:
> > also we have to think now about the corner panels - if you have more
> > than one panel etc.. how do we consider their gemoetry sicne corner
> > panels ar3ent the full width or height of the screen but can expand to
> > that.. etc...
> 
> unless you want to do something incredibly smart or sofisticated it can be
> done quite easily .... consider corner panels to be equivalent to side
> panels for maximizing ....
> 
> I think another nice thing would be that if the panel is hidden so that only
> the hidebutton shows, it should be allways on top and the window manager
> should use the full area for maximizing and initial window placement ...
> 
> then again, this is a policy issue that probably should not be dictated by
> the panel, but by the wm ... the panel should only set the hints and let
> the wm do the thinking :)

however as long as it's override redirect that's not going to be an option.

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