On 04 Jan 2002 15:16:04 -0800, Tony Tung wrote:
>
> I attempted to search for a solution to this problem on Google, but to no
> avail. I would like to draw upon your expertise.
>
> Pine (the mailreader) sends an escape sequence to change the label for its
> icon when new mail arrives and the window is iconified. However, the
> space allocated for the label by fvwm2 is fixed at the time the window is
> iconified. Therefore, the new label does not show in its entirety if it
> is longer than the label at the time the window is iconified. If I move
> my mouse over the icon, however, the label is resized correctly (I have
> sloppy focus on, which I assume makes a difference).
>
> Is there a way to automatically resize the icon label with fvwm2 2.4?
If I understand you correctly, this is not related to pine or xterm.
The width of the icon title in the collapsed state is always fixed, it is
comparable with the width of the icon itself. When you point to the icon
picture or title, the title is expanded fully if needed.
This is done intentionally, otherwise a long icon title (think Netscape)
would overlap all other icon titles in the raw. Several such long icon
titles may create bad visual effects if they are always fully expanded.
The expanding behaviour is the same for all focus policies, i.e. it works
on mouse enter and mouse leave rather than on focus.
Currently there is no way to change this feature that some of developers
consider very good. If you are not convinced that your desktop looks nicer
with short (fixed size) icon titles, you may fill a new feature request
using the web.
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Fri Jan 04 2002 - 19:32:56 GMT