On Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:58:55 GMT
Michael Hucka <mhucka_at_bbb.caltech.edu>
wrote concerning 'FVWM: Re: resizing windows':
>
> What I find annoying is that after I press meta-shift-button-2 on a window, I
> cannot resize it until I slide the cursor to the edge of the window and
> actually make the window *larger*. Then I can strink it. I wish it were
> possible to avoid that, and start the resize operation right away, without
> first moving to the window edges.
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?
Ric
Richard J Lister, Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA
Phone: +1 202-687 2878
Email: ric_at_giccs.georgetown.edu
Web:
http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/~ric/
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Received on Fri Sep 11 1998 - 09:13:10 BST