hi ,
thanx for your pormpt reply.
I reported this problem to nedit. waiting for their reply.
Is there any workaround for this ? If there pls let me know how to
fix.
You have mentioned that in your setting width_inc = 9 .
How to set this ? If it set to 9 this porblem will go ?
Pls let me know it any solution is there for this .
thanx & rgds
srivathsa
Dominik Vogt wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 03:43:14PM +0530, Srivathsa Rao U wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > I switched my WM from 2.0 to 2.4.4.
> > Now every thing working fine & i got the settings how I want. But
> > Iam facing problem with nedit.
> >
> > Iam working in Unix & using solaris system (sun7).
> >
> > Iam using " nedit" as text editer everywhere. But after i started
> > using new fvwm2.4.4 the size of this nedit is not fixed . For some
> > file
> > which have more memory like 700k the size ( geometry) is very big .
> > But
> > it is maintaing the height & only the width is increasing (may be
> > arround some 5 time of screen width) .
> > It is crossing window size also.
> >
> > why it is like that. ? How can i correct this?
> > This problem was not there in fvwm 2.0
> >
> > my default geometry for nedit is 80X40.
> >
> > This is not only my problem . here whoever using 2.4.4 they are also
> > facing this.
> > pls give the solution .
> >
> > nedit version - 5.1
> > I didnt downloaded nedit at the time of fvwm. It was there.
> > In my .Xdefault file i setted nedit geometry as - nedit*geometry: 85X40
> >
> >
> > Attached is the gtar file contains following.
> > file - junk --> a file with big memory. if I open this file in
> > nedit i am getting problem.
> > file - .fvwm2rc -> my fvwm settings.
> > file - .nedit -> my nedit settings.
> >
> >
> > But size is changing only for the file conating big memory. why it is
> > like that ?
>
> With the files you posted I can reproduce the problem. Actually
> it does not depend on the .fvwm2rc, but I need your .nedit file
> as well as the data file (using nedit-5.1.1).
>
> What happens is this:
>
> 1) Start nedit
> 2) nedit opens its main window with a width of 803 pixels and
> requests a character width (width_inc in the size hints) of 9
> pixels (for me). All is fine for now.
> 3) From the file dialog, load the data file you sent.
> 4) nedit provides new size hints. It again requests a width of
> 803 pixels, but a width_inc if 1. Now this is where the
> problem starts: according to the ICCCM2, the new requested
> width is ignored (honoured only when the window is mapped),
> but the width_inc is honoured. So, the window shrinks to a
> width of 154 pixels.
> 5) nedit resizes its window to 803 pixels width. Actually, it
> seems to believe it still has this size. Keep in mind that
> the character width is still 1.
> 6) Again, nedit provides new size hints, with a width of 803 and
> a width_inc of 9. Fvwm ignores the width as it should and
> honours the width . Thus, the width of the interior of the
> window is multiplied by 9 which results in a window that is
> about 5500 pixels wide :-P
>
> This is clearly a bug in nedit. There is no reason to change the
> width_inc to 1. Also, it seems the author misunderstood the way
> the size hints work. For other files, nedit neither resizes its
> window nor does it provide new size hints.
>
> The reason why you don't see this with earlier versions and
> probably not with any other window manager is that fvwm-2.2 and
> above is the only window manager I know of that properly
> implements changing the width_inc and height_inc hints.
>
> Please report this to the nedit developers.
>
> Bye
>
> Dominik ^_^ ^_^
>
> --
> Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
> Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Tue Feb 26 2002 - 03:23:20 GMT