On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:29:16PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Zoho Vignochi wrote: > > Also if I maximize a window, the edge of that window disappears a little > > as well. The amount is very small and so does not affect the working of > > the scrollbar but is still noticeable. Is this normal? > > I believe so, yes. A normal mouse pointer points up and left. The > hotspot, the portion of the icon which is where your clicks land, is all that > the GUI worries about. It is on the upper left side. Since the borders stop > the mouse at the hot spot if you move your mouse to the upper or left sides of > the screen the hotspot gets there first so the rest of the graphic is still on > the screen. On the bottom and right sides the hotspot is the last to hit the > edge so the graphic scrolls off. > > I think the same goes for when you maximise windows but for slightly > different reasons. What is off the edge of the screen is the graphical edge > of the window. It's just a few pixels. However since you're maximizing the > workspace inside that border and the border is pretty much meaningless when it > doesn't have to show you were the window ends (maximized, only one window to > show in the first place) it is pushed off the edge of the screen to give you > the maximum amount of space for the workspace of the window. > > Make sense? I tend to agree with you except, I think what the OP is referring to might be a monitor that might not be adjusted properly. I've seen this several times with monitors that have looked fine in windows may be off center it mis-sized in debian. usually a few minutes tweaking the monitor itself fixes it right up. .02 A
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