maximized windows are now size-locked
Gregory Pittman
gpittman at iglou.com
Sun Jan 15 02:51:05 UTC 2006
Fulko Hew wrote:
>
> Problem #2
>
>
> I'm an old Unix guy and I liked the window embelishments that
> I had with Motif... simple, old, but effective. So I've configured
> KDE's window manager to use the 'CDE' window decoration style.
>
> The maximize button on the title bar has changed its behaviour
> from the way it used to work in FC3.
>
> When you push the maximize button, yes it maximizes the window,
> but now you can no longer grab a window's border to resize it
> differently. You used to be able to do that. Now you can only
> resize the window again if you re-push the maximize button, to
> restore it to its original size.
>
> So the maximize button has now changed from:
> - 'resize the window to the largest possible size'
> to
> - 'resize the window to the largest possible size... and
> never let anybody resize it _ever_ again!'
>
> Why can't I resize it anymore.
I'm using KDE with Keramik and have no problems resizing with the window
borders after maximizing. I switched to CDE and still can resize as I wish.
If you look in Control Center > Desktop > Window Behavior > Moving there
is an item to allow moving and resizing of maximized windows.
Greg
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