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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: [kde] Window position/size display
From:       "akar" <akar () optusnet ! com ! au>
Date:       2001-12-09 3:18:05
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Hmm thats interesting,
I generally know how big a window is when I'm resizing it by the size of it.
And I know where it is by looking at it. ie: If I drag either the outline or
the full opaque window to the left of my screen, I can look at my screen and
see it on the left and therfore I know where it is. The same applies to size
of course; I can drag either the outline or the full opaque windows. If i
drag it to fill most of the screen then I know it is 'Big', If I drag it to
fill only a tiny space then I can tell by looking that it is 'little'.

Outline or Opaque can of course be selected in control-centre. Kdes' default
window manager does not show the co-ordinates like windowmaker for example
can be set to do. But of course you can use WindowMaker in KDE or even
Gnomes window manager (sawfish? sore-tooth? something like that) or any
manager you like simply by editing the ksessionmanager line in the startkde
script. A comment there will tell you what to do and it is quite easy.

andrew



----- Original Message -----
From: Jason A. Pfeil <pfeil@TheAIMSGroup.com>
To: <kde@mail.kde.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 12:44 PM
Subject: [kde] Window position/size display


> Hello!  I am currently stuck.  :)  I like some things about KDE and some
> things about GNOME.  One thing that is critically missing from KDE (at
> least as far as I can tell) is the ability to display the position of a
> window when interactively moving it and the ability to display the size
> of a window when interactively resizing it.  This is a GREAT help in
> knowing where and how big your windows are.
>
> Can someone tell me how to enable this in the KDE Window Manager?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Jason A. Pfeil                        The AIMS Group
> Senior Open Systems Engineer          (http://www.theaimsgroup.com)
> pfeil@theaimsgroup.com                (904)220-DOCS or 1-800-993-DOCS
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