Re: FVWM: Re: resizing windows

From: Neil Zanella <nzanella_at_morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:08:24 -0230 (NDT)

On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Richard Lister wrote:

> What's really happening is that you are moving the cursor to go and grab
> the rubber band used for resizing. This behaviour dates all the way back
> to twm.
>
> I for one can't think of an alternative scheme to the rubber band for
> indicating arbitrary resize operations. Anyone got good ideas?

Yes, we could resize windows dynamically like in AfterStep.
In any case I don't see why you should move outward to grab the rubber
band.
Why can't the window automatically turn to a rubber band and shrink toward
the pointer when you start a resize operation?

Neil

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