Window manager for power users?

[Tony Nelson]

At 4:35 PM -0400 6/20/05, Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
>On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:35:27 -0400
>Adam Gibson <agibson at ptm.com> wrote:
>
>[Tall windows, short screen - vs. Metacity][
>
>> I see I am not the only one bothered by that too.  Changing screen
>> resolution has become much easier now that we have xrandr than it used
>> to be.  Windows created bigger than the screen can handle has come up
>> quite a few times for me in the past year.  You would think the window
>> manager would be smart enough to know that a 800 vertical pixel window
>> will be useless on a 768 pixel desktop.  Any buttons at the bottom will
>> not be unusable without trying to manually shrink the window by clicking
>> on the top of the window, dragging it down, releasing, moving the window
>
>What seems really strange to me is that SOMETIMES you seem to be able to
>grab the window and drag it upwards by holding down the alt key while
>dragging (and the top portion of the window goes underneath the Gnome
>panel). Sometimes, this doesn't work and Metacity refuses to drag the
>window upwards any farther than the panel.
>
>> up some, and repeating if it still doesnt fit.  I think any window that
>> is created should be autoreduced to the max display resolution(minus non
>> hiding panels too) if the X or Y is bigger than the desktop.  It sure
>> sounds good anyway.
>
>I've done the resize/drag/resize/drag thing a number of times here. :)

How about right-click on the window's tab in the bottom taskbar, choose
Resize, pick an edge by pressing an arrow key, then resize by arrow keys or
moving the mouse.  Press Enter to end the mode.  (Determined by experiment,
there may be a simpler way.)  Move works also.  This doesn't seem to
require being able to click on an edge of the window, so it should work
even if the edges are off the screen.
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