on Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 09:51:04AM +0000, Piers Kittel (debian@biased.org) wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Have used windowmaker a lot for quite a while on my work and home
> computers, but one thing really bugs me is that only a few certain
> window, when opened, is sized in crazy sizes. For example, if I open an
> email in Thunderbird, the window takes up the full width but only 1cm or
> so high, but the other windows (such as writing an new email etc) always
> starts up maximised. Another ex, on my home computer, when Thunderbird
> starts up, it is about 1cm wide, and a couple inches tall - and no
> matter what I do, I can't get those windows to start up maximised? I
> know my examples are Thunderbird centric, but it affects other programs.
>
> Any ideas anyone?
Windows should be sized to the dimensions last used, in most cases.
Suggestion:
- Open the application.
- Check that the window isn't set as "maximized".
- Size the window to the dimensions desired.
- Close the application.
- Restart the application.
...are your windows sized as you want?
Another option is to bind a hotkey sequence to the "maximize window
vertically" function. In my case, <alt><space> does this (set this
through the WPrefs utility). So if I get a small window a quick tap
fills my monitor vertically. Very useful. I've also got <alt><F10> set
to maximize fully, though that's something used less often.
Peace.
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