Bug#420562: gnome weather applet has fixed size window

[Craig Sanders]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 07:15:57AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 07:42:36PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Le lundi 23 avril 2007 à 18:56 +1000, Craig Sanders a écrit :
> > > the window size should either be user-adjustable (with the size being
> > > remembered after each change) OR the applet should make the window wide
> > > enough to display the forecast without needing horizontal scroll bars.
> > 
> > The window size is already adjustable, and the window size and location
> > are remembered across logins. What more do you expect?
> 
> no, it's not.  it's a fixed-size, non-adjustable window.
> 
> if it was adjustable, i would have adjusted it myself rather than submit
> a bug report.
> 
> maybe metacity ignores the instruction to be a dialog window, but
> sawfish doesn't (i use sawfish with afterstep theme. partly because
> i'm used to it and the buttons are where i expect them to be, and
> partly because you can middle-click in the maximise button to get a
> vertical-only maximise...which metacity can't/doesn't do)

ok, i've figured out a workaround:  

1.  bring up the weather window.  

2.  go to Sawfish Configurator (Desktop->Preferences->Windows menu), 

3.  select "Matched Windows" tab.

4.  Add a matcher of type "Class".  click "Grab" button,
    then click on the weather window.  it should enter
    "^Gweather-applet-2/gweather-applet-2$"

5. Click on Appearance Tab of the Matcher dialog.  

6. Click "Frame Type" checkbox, and select "Normal" from
   the popup menu.

7. click on OK.



This tells sawfish to make the gnome weather applet window a normal,
resizable window.


it would be better if the weather applet opened the window with the
right attributes in the first place.


craig

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