Re: About my problems with Metacity

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 20:57, Santanu Chatterjee wrote:

> (1.) I like to use a 800x600 screen on my 14'' monitor (some eye problems).
> But with this resolution, some windows show up quite large, and when they are
> not resizeable, and have their 'Apply' button off the screen, it becomes
> impossible to click on them, since I am no longer able to move the window 
> above the screen (though I can move them below)

There is a bug open about this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106740

It's currently considered a pretty major accessibility problem.

> (2.) Is there any chance that the wire frame window move/resize feature be
> available under Metacity? When a number of windows are opened in my desktop,
> the opaque window movement really looks VERY odd with a trail being left
> behind (due to slow background redrawing)

There is also a bug open about this :)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95273

and a patch is available in GNOME CVS
(sun-patches/metacity/438-95273-s.diff) that implements it, if you're
willing/able to rebuild metacity yourself.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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