Re: About my problems with Metacity

[Santanu Chatterjee <santanu softhome net>]

 Calum Benson wrote [on 04/06/03 15:01 +0100]:
> 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.
> 

Thanks a lot. Unless the patch is Sun specific, I should be able to
apply it.
Also thanks for the above bug links.
(I wonder why couldn't I find them myself. Maybe searching in the
wrong place...)

Regards,
Santanu