Re: Problem resizing windows horizontally

[Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>]

Laurent de Segur wrote:

> I have recently been experiencing a very annoying problem (since I updated
> XFree to 4.1 in testing) with X running Sawfish default theme. In this
> window style (and a couple of others), there is no right border on the
> window frame, and resizing is done, I believe by selecting the window at the
> bottom even when you want to resize the width. I am using a MS optical USB
> wheel mouse (the white one, not the silver one, awesome mouse btw.)
> 
> When I try to select the bottom frame and resize the height by dragging the
> mouse, no problemo. When I drag to the right to resize the width, no way. If
> I select another style with a right border on the window, it will work.

The only wild guess I can come up with is that you are missing the SHAPE
extension. Make sure your XF86Config Section "Module" contains the line

        Load    "extmod"


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