[xmonad] xmonad & opera dialogs

[Felix Blanke]

I figured out what the problem is:

when installing opera with gtk (to have a nice "download dialog") the problems
occurs.
When not using that gtk stuff the dialogs have the right size.

Bad :/


Felix



On 14. October 2010 - 21:58, Felix Blanke wrote:
> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:58:35 +0200
> From: Felix Blanke <felixblanke at gmail.com>
> To: xmonad at haskell.org
> Subject: Re: [xmonad] xmonad & opera dialogs
> 
> Btw: That happens also with the example xmonad.hs file which comes with xmonad.
> 
> 
> 
> Felix
> 
> On 12. October 2010 - 22:31, Felix Blanke wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:31:08 +0200
> > From: Felix Blanke <felixblanke at gmail.com>
> > To: xmonad at haskell.org
> > Subject: Re: [xmonad] xmonad & opera dialogs
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Thx for your reply.
> > 
> > 
> > I'm using opera 10.63 (since today, the problem also exist with 10.62 and some
> > earlier). Distro is gentoo.
> > 
> > I can resize the dialog boxes the way I want to. The size varies like every time.
> > Sometimes the size is ok, sometimes it is to small (if opera is on one of my small
> > screens, 1200x1600) and sometimes it is way to big (>5000 pixel).
> > 
> > I have 3 screens here, 1200x1600, 2560x1600 and 1200x1600. I'm not 100% sure but the
> > big download dialog only occurs since I added the third monitor (1200x1600). Before
> > there were only the small boxes on the 1200x1600 screen.
> > 
> > If I resize one box the next time the box has a different size, seems to be random.
> > 
> > I'm not sure if I would like to tile all dialogs. What would be the config part for
> > that?
> > 
> > 
> > Btw: That doesn't hapen in other programs. I'm not using a lot programs with GUI, but
> > for example firefox don't have that problem at my computer.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Felix
> > 
> > 
> > On 12. October 2010 - 14:34, Lithis wrote:
> > > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:34:08 -0500
> > > From: Lithis <xmonad at selg.hethrael.org>
> > > To: xmonad at haskell.org
> > > Subject: Re: [xmonad] xmonad & opera dialogs
> > > Mail-Followup-To: xmonad at haskell.org
> > > 
> > > I use Opera with xmonad 0.9 and I have never noticed a
> > > problem with dialog sizes. I don’t use a password, but the
> > > download dialogs and all other dialogs are appropriately
> > > sized. What version of Opera are you running? I’m running
> > > the latest under Arch Linux, but I didn’t have any trouble
> > > under Ubuntu several years ago either. What distro are you
> > > using?
> > > 
> > > Can you resize the dialog boxes? If you do so, do new
> > > dialogs open with the new size or still with the incorrect
> > > size?
> > > 
> > > Is this an intermittent problem, i.e., do some download
> > > dialogs open with the correct size and some are too large?
> > > Do the same dialogs always have the same incorrect sizes or
> > > do they vary?
> > > 
> > > When dialog boxes in other applications open in a size I
> > > don’t like, I often press Mod+T to tile the dialog box.
> > > (I’ve considered modifying my config to automatically tile
> > > all dialog boxes, like ion3 used to.) If you can’t fix it
> > > any other way, tiling missized dialog boxes is an easy
> > > workaround.
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