Re: FVWM: gnome-panel hogs desktop space in fvwm

From: Espen, Dan <despen_at_telcordia.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:12:04 -0400

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 08:52 -0400, Jim Cline wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> thanks for that idea; I did try Style * GNOMEIgnoreHints, to no effect.
> As for ewmh, this would require installation of the fvwm-ewmh package?
> I am in the midest of trying to repair my system after getting various
> library conflicts from manual installations versus apt-gets of debian
> packages, so if there is a solution within fvwm2 this would be best.

No, you should not need the fvwm-ewmh package, (whatever that is),
if your copy of fvwm is built with ewmh support (it should be)
then the ewmh commands should work.

Note that the maximize command has a argument that tells it to ignore
these hints too.

> --Jim
>
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Espen, Dan wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 00:55 -0400, Jim Cline wrote:
> >> I am running gnome-panel from within fvwm, and recently upgraded to the
> >> newest version of gnome-panel. When I maximize windows now, they do not
> >> fill the screen as they used to, instead only that part of the screen
> >> not taken by the panel. The new gnome panel is sending window hints (more
> >> like commands than hints!) that the old one did not. How can I override
> >> this so that windows cover up the panel when they are maximized, or
> >> otherwise invoked?
> >
> > Look in the man page for GnomeIgnoreHints, and the EWMH flags, like
> > EMWHIgnoreWorkingArea.
> >
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