On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 09:21:16AM -0500, Tessa Lau wrote:
> I use fvwm on a laptop. When it's docked, it's connected to a monitor
> with 1600x1200 resolution; when I undock it, I have a virtual screen
> of 1600x12000 and physical screen of 1024x768.
>
> One of the problems that crops up is that an application will pop up
> modal dialog boxes (e.g., a browser's "save file" dialog) that are
> mapped off the edge of the physical display. Unless I think to pan to
> the right and check for modal dialogs, it looks like my browser has
> wedged.
>
> I'd like to make it such that when I'm undocked, no windows are mapped
> beyond the edge of the physical screen, so that I can use my laptop as
> if it had an effective virtual resolution of 1024x768. AFAIK, X is
> incapable of dynamically changing virtual screen resolutions, so I'm
> trying to find a workaround using the window manager. I need to do
> this without restarting my X server or killing running applications.
> Restarting the window manager is okay, though I'd prefer a method that
> communicates with a running fvwm.
>
> Is this possible? It seems like what I want is the ability to set the
> $[vp.width] and $[vp.height] variables to different values rather than
> having them be autodetected by querying the X server.
I think you can do some magic with the EwmhBaseStrut command and
the EWMHUseStrutHints, PlacementOverlapPenalties and
PlacementOverlapPercentPenalties Styles. This is all new in
2.5.x. Try this:
EwmhBaseStrut 0 576 0 432
style * EWMHPlacementUseWorkingArea
style * placementoverlappenalties 1 5 10 1 0.05 1000, minoverlapplacement
By the way, I think all the
...Strut
stuff is misnamed. It should all be named
...Struts
^^^
And I think
PlacementOverlap(Percent)Penalties
should be renamed to
MinOverlap(Percent)PlacementPenalties
So, don't be surprised when the old names stop working in future
2.5.x releases.
Also, I think the arguments of the EwmhBaseStrut command should
use "percent of screen size" as the default unit, not "pixels",
since virtually all other commands work like this. The new
syntax would the be
EwmhBaseStrut 0p 576p 0p 432p
Olivier: I can't find anything about the EWMH related code in
the NEWS file.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Fri Nov 01 2002 - 11:11:24 GMT