http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2008/09/10/2-23-610/ "Many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios." Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:22:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2008/09/10/2-23-610/comment-page-1/#comment-456 Plareplane Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:18:57 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2008/09/10/2-23-610/#comment-456 Nevermind that last comment. The problem was between my keyboard and my chair, and it has been corrected. I had mistakenly passed WM_NORMAL_HINTS around in the wrong format, although I'm not sure why restarting metacity was a workaround. Nevermind that last comment. The problem was between my keyboard and my chair, and it has been corrected. I had mistakenly passed WM_NORMAL_HINTS around in the wrong format, although I’m not sure why restarting metacity was a workaround.

]]> http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2008/09/10/2-23-610/comment-page-1/#comment-455 Plareplane Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:55:45 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2008/09/10/2-23-610/#comment-455 I read http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2008/08/15/communicating-with-metacity/ and wrote a small program to tile windows (like Windows), which works as expected for normal windows. For gnome-terminal, gvim, and emacs windows, however, the windows are resized (subject to increments constraints) but not moved. If I change the WM_NORMAL_HINTS of those windows and immediately try to move/resize again, I get the same failure. If I first reload metacity after changing the WM_NORMAL_HINTS, then those windows can be moved/resized like normal windows. How do I make metacity reload the new WM_NORMAL_HINTS? I read http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2008/08/15/communicating-with-metacity/ and wrote a small program to tile windows (like Windows), which works as expected for normal windows. For gnome-terminal, gvim, and emacs windows, however, the windows are resized (subject to increments constraints) but not moved. If I change the WM_NORMAL_HINTS of those windows and immediately try to move/resize again, I get the same failure. If I first reload metacity after changing the WM_NORMAL_HINTS, then those windows can be moved/resized like normal windows. How do I make metacity reload the new WM_NORMAL_HINTS?

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