Re: FVWM: FVWM2: maximize button

From: Frank Wilcox, Jr. <fewilcox_at_unity.ncsu.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:50:00 -0400

On Apr 21, 11:26, John Beyer wrote:
> Subject: Re: FVWM: FVWM2: maximize button
>
> > From: "Frank Wilcox, Jr." <fewilcox_at_unity.ncsu.edu>
> > Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 10:57:51 -0400
> >
> > is there any way to trap the maximize button (^) in the corner of each
window
> > so that it will the whole screen EXCEPT for the part taken up by by the
> > button bar. The default is fill the whole screen (or least, almost the
whole
> > screen).
>
> Just to clarify what behavior you're seeking -
>
> Suppose your button bar was in the upper-left corner of the screen, and
> your window was well below and to the right of it. Would your zoom stop
> at the bottom edge or the right edge of the button bar?
>
> Would this change if your button bar was vertical instead of horizontal?
>
> What if the window overlapped the button bar before zooming?
>
> What if the button bar were floating in the middle of the screen and the
> window completely covered it before zooming? (I know, it's a pathological
> case, but there's plenty of pathological users out there...)
>
> If the window was zoomed and butting up against the button bar and the
> button bar got moved or resized, would the window resize to accomodate?
>
> If the button bar got killed, would zooming revert to full-screen zoom?
>
> What if, for some reason, the user had more than one button bar on the
> screen?
>
>
> Basically, what all the above amounts to is, can your proposed zooming
> algorithm handle all possible initial shapes and placements of both the
> button bar and the window, and does it handle any dynamic activity of
> those things before and afterward?
>
>-- End of excerpt from John Beyer

i have no idea.

right now i just have a slightly modified default button bar. it fills the
bottom edge of my screen. i want to eventually make it vertical on the right
side...but i haven't got the time right now (exams week after next...'nuf
said).

as for all those other options, i don't see myself using them (though
anything is possible), so all i really care about right now is the two
configs i'm looking at.

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