Re: windows sizing

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> writes:

> On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Sackwitz, Antje wrote:
> > Hi,
> > How do you maximize programmatically a window without the maximize
> > button?
> > How do you disable window functions minimize,maximize, close_window
> > (three buttons top right corner of each window)?
> > 
> 
> You can't do any of these unless you have a window manager that supports
> some way to do it. This is entirely up to the window manager.
> 
> Sometimes gdk_window_show(gtkwindow->window) will deiconify a window.
> There may also be a standard way to disable the close button, some apps
> seem to do it, but I don't think Gtk supports it so you'd have to use
> Xlib calls via gdk/gdkx.h. Emacs iconifies itself if you control-Z (at
> least with my WM), but again I think you'd have to use Xlib - I don't know
> what Emacs does to get the behavior.

For window managers that support Motif hints, you can
do:

      gtk_widget_realize (window);
      gdk_window_set_decorations (window->window,
                                  GDK_DECOR_ALL | /* subtract the following */,
                                  GDK_DECOR_MENU | 
                                  GDK_DECOR_MINIMIZE |
                                  GDK_DECOR_MAXIMIZE);
      gdk_window_set_functions (window->window,
                                GDK_FUNC_ALL | /* subtract the following */,
                                GDK_FUNC_CLOSE | 
                                GDK_FUNC_MINIMIZE |
                                GDK_FUNC_MAXIMIZE);

(See gdk/gdktypes.h for the list of possible flag values)

The exact behavior here is very much dependent on your window
manager.

Regards,
                                        Owen