On 07/06/11 at 12:03pm, lee wrote: > William Hopkins <we.hopkins@gmail.com> writes: > > > On 07/04/11 at 10:45pm, lee wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> what might be the reason for mplayer to come up without window > >> decorations on fvwm-crystal? > > > > mplayer is a command-line tool. If you wish to control it primarily via GUI, > > use gmplayer or kmplayer, which is an mplayer wrapper application. > > Its window always had decorations when running it with KDE. I don't > need the GUI to control mplayer because I'm using the keyboard to do > that. It's inconvenient not being able to move the mplayer window > because it doesn't have decorations. Most window managers accept alt-rightclick for resizes, and alt-leftclick for moves (I am only suggesting as an interim solution) > So either there's some setting of fvwm-crystal that turns off the > decorations and which I couldn't find, or the default for mplayer is to > create a window that doesn't have decorations (if that is something the > application creating the window can decide). Check your .fvwm2rc for an mplayer entry, or the system-wide config file at /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc > Are you suggesting that the default for mplayers windows is not to have > decorations? I haven't run a 'decorations-setting' WM in years, sorry. My recollection has always been of mplayer without them. -- Liam
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