Debian on EEE -- really nice, but how can I resize windows which already seem to be at their minimal size?
 

On Monday 01 February 2010 12:21:12 Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using Debian on this EEE pc for a long time
> (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC). It is a Lenny,
> w. 2.6.26-2-686. Everything is pretty fine, but, as my scr. resolution
> has only a max. of 1024 x 600 (as I am using a 1000 HE), some of the
> windows are sometimes too big for my screen, and the buttons are
> consequently out of sight. The problem is that these windows seem to
> be unresizeable. Consequently, either I need to keep in mind where the
> `Confirm' (or `OK') button is, or I need to check on another computer,
> to see the order of these buttons. Once it is done, I am able to
> confirm using the tab key, to go from one clickable to another one.
>
> How can I resize these windows? (They seem to be at their minimal
> size.)
>
> Thanks!
>
Which window manager are you using?
Thierry


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Tixy <debianuser@tixy.myzen.co.uk> writes:

> On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 12:21 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote
>> I am using Debian on this EEE pc for a long time
>> (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC). It is a Lenny,
>> w. 2.6.26-2-686. Everything is pretty fine, but, as my scr. resolution
>> has only a max. of 1024 x 600 (as I am using a 1000 HE), some of the
>> windows are sometimes too big for my screen, and the buttons are
>> consequently out of sight. The problem is that these windows seem to
>> be unresizeable.
> <snip>
>
> Here's a tip I read somewhere when I started using my EEE...
>
> You can drag any (non-maximised) window around by clicking on it
> anywhere with the left mouse button whilst holding down the Alt key.
> That way, you can move it up/left until you see the things you want
> access to.
For sure. I knew this, but, if the windows is too big (because of the
text it contains), moving it this way (or with other shortcuts) only
causes it to move horizontally, and not vertically(!)

All my tasksbars are also masked, to have more free space on my
screen, but it does not prevent these buttons from being sometimes
``too lowly' or ``too highly' placed on the screen.

This problem is only illustrated when I am facing a long window (it
happens unfortunately more often than you may imagine). In this case,
even a printscreen does not give me the buttons (eh, I tried making a
printscreen of the window, opening the image, and scrolling down, to
see the buttons, but the printscreen's image stops where the window
stops on my screen, unfortunately).

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Thierry Chatelet <tchatelet@free.fr> writes:

> Which window manager are you using?

I am using X (GNOME).
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On Monday 01 February 2010 13:53:46 Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Thierry Chatelet <tchatelet@free.fr> writes:
> > Which window manager are you using?
>
> I am using X (GNOME).
>

Well, I am using kde, but you must have similar feature in gnome: so, in kde:
Click on the icon on the left of the window's title bar ->Advence -> Special
Window setting, and adjust the size of your window there.
Thierry


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Thierry Chatelet <tchatelet@free.fr> writes:

> Well, I am using kde, but you must have similar feature in gnome: so, in kde:
> Click on the icon on the left of the window's title bar ->Advence -> Special
> Window setting, and adjust the size of your window there.

Hmm, I used to use KDE a long time ago, and, effectively, it has this
feature. I looked here, but GNOME does not seem to have this
specificity.

To be sure that my situation is well understood, here is a screenshot:
http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/FMP.png. You may
notice that buttons from the bottom are not shown, simply because the
window does not fit the screen. Most of windows are okay, but not this
one, for example.

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Klistvud <quotations@aliceadsl.fr> writes:

> Devilspie might help you out if you're willing to give it a try (and if
> it works under your particular window manager). It's a utility to
> resize/reposition windows as soon as they are created.

Thanks for the pointer. I had absolutely no knowledge of the existence
of such a program. It looks pretty nice, but, according to many
tutorials I have quickly read, it will not help me, as it can, among
other things, put windows at given coordinates, minimize, fullscreen,
center, etc.

One point which is clear is that the window on the PNG screenshot is
already minimized. Consequently, it cannot be displayed smaller (as
some text would be missing, except if there exists a magic program
which can also resize the text [negligible], buttons, and other stuff
[not negligible] composing the window, thus making it smaller),
whatever the program it is done with.

The best thing which could be done by this program would be to make it
appear fullscreen (but not very practical) [(fullscreen)], and to
remove unuseful stuff ([undecorate]). Coupling these two things could
help the content of the window to take less place, consequently
showing buttons, and I shall use this solution if no other one is found.

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On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 07:53:46 -0500 (EST), Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Thierry Chatelet <tchatelet@free.fr> writes:
>> Which window manager are you using?
>
> I am using X (GNOME).

I'm not trying to split hairs here; but strictly speaking, GNOME is
a *session* manager, not a *window* manager. The default *window*
manager in the GNOME environment is metacity. It is possible to
use metacity without using GNOME. I don't recommend it, but it
is possible.

Unfortunately, this does nothing to help you with your problem. :-(


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On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 13:52 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Tixy <debianuser@tixy.myzen.co.uk> writes:
<snip>
> > You can drag any (non-maximised) window around by clicking on it
> > anywhere with the left mouse button whilst holding down the Alt key.
> > That way, you can move it up/left until you see the things you want
> > access to.
> For sure. I knew this, but, if the windows is too big (because of the
> text it contains), moving it this way (or with other shortcuts) only
> causes it to move horizontally, and not vertically(!)
<snip>

I can move windows vertically too - that's what I do to get to menu
buttons on my EEEPC 1000HE running Debian Squeeze with the Gnome
Desktop. (I'm sure it was the same when I ran Lenny.)

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Dne, 01. 02. 2010 13:52:55 je Merciadri Luca napisal(a):


This problem is only illustrated when I am facing a long window (it
happens unfortunately more often than you may imagine). In this case,
even a printscreen does not give me the buttons (eh, I tried making a
printscreen of the window, opening the image, and scrolling down, to
see the buttons, but the printscreen's image stops where the window
stops on my screen, unfortunately).



Devilspie might help you out if you're willing to give it a try (and if
it works under your particular window manager). It's a utility to
resize/reposition windows as soon as they are created.


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Klistvud <quotations@aliceadsl.fr> writes:

> Devilspie might help you out if you're willing to give it a try (and if
> it works under your particular window manager). It's a utility to
> resize/reposition windows as soon as they are created.

Okay, I played around with devilspie, and, using

==
(debug)
(undecorate)
==

in `all.ds', and executing `devilspie -d' displayed the names of the
windows, and undecorated all of them, as expected. Let's now
reconsider the previous windows I was speaking about. Here is a new
screenshot of it:
http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/FPM2.png. You may
notice that the button now appears correctly. However, I think that it
is not possible to configure devilpsie so that every window which has
an overall height bigger than a given threshold (i.e. height >
threshold) looses its decorations (i.e. (undecorate) is applied to
it).
Is it possible?

And if the window is too big, even devilspie's trick will not be
useful anymore. It is likely to be the case in some windows. In these
cases, what should I do?

Thanks.

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