Re: [dwm] dealing with badly-behaved GUI applications

I've had the menu problem before. It seems like the bar height is the
amount of pixels that you have click below the items. My workaround
for it was moving the window down that amount of pixels.

Ryan

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:54 AM, John Stewart <cane_cubo_AT_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you for the suggestion. Yes, I did try floating layout, with the same
> result, unfortunately. With a different swing app, one called jMemorize, I
> was able to run it using floating layout, but there was odd behaviour with
> menu items. I had to click about 8-10 pixels below a menu item to select
> it. In a nested X server it was fine.
>
> jds
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_suckless.org>
> To: dynamic window manager <dwm_AT_suckless.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 11:34:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [dwm] dealing with badly-behaved GUI applications
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 04:50:31PM -0700, John Stewart wrote:
> > This may well be a newbie question. I frequently use freemind, an
> open-source java application for drawing mind maps. When running under dwm,
> version 0.8.1 stubbornly refuses to expand the map canvas to the whole
> screen.
> >
> > As a stop-gap, I'm running a nested X server (Xephyr), with a very basic
> VM. This works fine, but I'm curious to know how others may have dealt with
> similar problems, possibly with other applications.
>
> Did you try running this app in floating layout?
>
> Kind regards,
> --
> Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
>
>
>
Received on Thu Mar 27 2008 - 02:22:54 UTC