[xmonad] Issue 151 in xmonad: XMonad needs to spot resize events in non-floating windows

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Issue 151: XMonad needs to spot resize events in non-floating windows
http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=151

Comment #3 by mj.fialka:
If I change the XTerm's font in a tiled window, the size of the window 
remains the
same (in the opposite to floating XTerm that does resize) but the 
geometry change of
the XTerm is not detected by XMonad and therefor XMonad does not force 
the window
geometry to the XTerm and thus XTerm does not change it's geometry as 
it happens in
other cases such as when changing layouts or removing/adding a window 
to the tiled
layout or when beying resized using "mouseResize" with "windowArrange" contributed
modules. Therefor, when the font is changed to a smaller one, the 
window remains the
same and you can see the application running inside it (can be MC for a 
good visual
reference) in a top-left corner without beying resized to the full 
window rectangle.
That makes this feature of XTerm almost useless which is really pity 
(see the
"off-topic" below). When the font size increases the same thing happens 
but with the
result that only a part of the running application is visible. I hope 
that's clear
now what happens although I am terribly pity I can not add some more technical
description... :-(

---off-topic---
I must say that as non-programmer I do not know exactly what XTerm is 
actually doing.
I do not know URXVT but I know I simply love to resize the font size of 
the XTerm
on-the-fly. Is' one of the most handiest things about XTerm. XTerm is 
also the most
precise VT100 emulator around (you can test it with `vttest' to see) 
and it has also
the marvellous Tektronix mode which I use sometimes. To be short - 
XTerm has many
features I actually need to be effective at my work and at home too. 
Also consider
that XTerm is somehow the stadard terminal emulator for XFree86 that is 
included in
most UNIX systems so I would rather not get used to anything else 
because I can keep
my .Xresources still by me and load them almost anywhere and profit of 
the effective
working environment which is exactly the thing XTerm means to me. :-)

Please, all reading this, do NOT react on this off-topic piece of text 
above here
directly. I do not like to flame either. If you like to discuss this 
off-topic called
"Why is XTerm so good to MJF?" with me, do `/query mjf' on #xmonad 
channel instead.
Thank you. :-)
---off-topic---

I would like to know what XTerm does. When XTerm changes it's 
font-size, you can see
using `xprop' utility that it did a geometry change (lookup
"WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS)" in the output). But I can not see from 
the `xprop's
output whether it signalled something or just resized itself. Help with debugging
this and it's connection to what's going on inside XMonad is therefor 
requested by me
as well.

I hope we can find some solution together. I started to love XMonad, 
because it is
the window manager ("almost") I was looking for for years. :-)



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