Re: GTK remove minimize & maximize buttons

["Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 cornell edu>]

Gian Mario Tagliaretti wrote:

> On Tuesday 28 December 2004 01:46, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>  
>
> > If you don't agree with the decorations which your window manager uses
> > for windows of a certain type, you should use a different window manager
> > or configure the one you use, rather than lie to it about the window
> > type.
> What does it mean? If I do want in my app a window toplevel with the two 
> buttons minimize and maximize disabled why can't I?
> The window manager have nothing to do with it.
>  
quite the opposite: the window manager has everything to do with it.  
the WM draws the window decorations, including the min/max/close 
buttons.  if the WM chooses to ignore the hints set on the window, it 
may feel free to do so.

   -brian