maximised windows

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Thu Apr 1 21:11:00 CEST 2004


Simon,

Well, kwin (KDE) works like xfwm4 while CDE works like you describe. I
think the way it works in xfwm4 makes more sense, but it's really easy
to change. 

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 19:43, Simon Huggins wrote:
> Hi XFCE4,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 06:58:10PM +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> > What you guys describe is the typical Windows behaviour, or the
> > behaviour of some other WM. xfwm4 maximisation is just like I want it,
> > there is no bug as far as I can tell (what you describe as bug aren't
> > bugs in my own point of view.
> 
> Just out of interest why do you want to be able to maximise, move and
> then never be able to get back to the original size though?  Wouldn't
> that be a worthwhile feature to add?
> 
> I think this discussion has revealed that some of your users would like
> such a thing.
> 
> If you want to s/bug/feature/g then that's fine but it would be a shame
> to just write this off without considering it[1].
> 
> 
> Simon.
> 
> [1] where "it" is store the original location and size of the window
>     even after a maximised window has been moved so that a further
>     click on maximise would restore the window to its original size and
>     location.
>     This still lets you maximise with a further click of maximise.
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