Re: FVWM: Maximising windows

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 12:40:32 -0500

Andy Arbon <andy_at_andrewarbon.co.uk> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have a dual monitor system using a dual head NVidia card. I have 2 key
> bindings for maximising windows on to either monitor.
>
> For the first monitor I Maximise the window to 1152x868 - the res of
> that monitor. For the second I Maximise the window to 800x600 and move
> it to 1152, 0.
>
> This works fine. The problem comes in the folowing sequence:
>
> 1) Maximise window on to one of the screens
> 2) Try to maximise the same window on to the other screen
>
> What should happen is that the window switches from one screen to the
> other (and changes size as a consequence) but what actually happens is
> the window de-maximises from whichever screen it was on.. ie. it
> performs a restore instead of the maximise.
>
> Presumably this is because normally when you execute a Maximise on a
> maximised window you are in fact trying to de-maximise it, but in this
> case I have two different states that are both maximised!
>
> Is there any way to distinguish between to two different maximised
> states so that FVWM will not try to restore a window when moving between
> them?
>
> Hope this isn't too confusing ;)

Please mention the OS, X server and FVWM release you are using
and if you are using Xinerama.

Recent releases of Fvwm have Xinerama support.

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Received on Fri Mar 08 2002 - 11:44:55 GMT

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