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Gary Kramlich grim at reaperworld.com
Tue Dec 4 18:54:20 EST 2007


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Gary Kramlich wrote:
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> All I really have left to say...
> 
> grim at cloak:~$ xwininfo | grep geometry
> 26:  -geometry 632x385+42-89
> 
> Maximizing the backlog when my window is already 385px is a bit over
> zealous.  It does absolutely nothing for me except make my UI, make it
> harder for me to read, and emits a ton of signals for widget
> resizing/exposing.
> 
> If need be I can screen shot and measure in the gimp, but I really don't
> think I need roughly 60% of my window as backlog.

For a larf, I went ahead and checked this out with the gimp.  Granted
it's not exact, but it gives a good idea.

Also, I'd like to point out that I am NOT against having a sane default,
but this jumping crap has got to stop.  Ideally the size would be some
sort of sane ratio, but that seems like a lot more hassle than it's worth.

- --
Gary Kramlich <grim at reaperworld.com>
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