Re: CSD and hyperactive window resizing

Allin Cottrell <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:39:07 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.sawfish
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Good question. But I just tried backing up then removing my 
~/.sawfishrc and ~/.sawfish/custom and it didn't affect the CSD 
resizing behavior.

Allin Cottrell

On Mon, 27 Jul 2015, Robert 'Bobby' Zenz wrote:

> Can you exclude that this might be a configuration mishap in your
> Sawfish? Can you retry with a "default" configuration?
>
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 14:46:11 -0400 (EDT) Allin Cottrell 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I run current Sawfish (with Xfce, but I prefer sawfish to xfwm4) on
>> ARCH Linux.
>>
>> I'm seeing something very annoying with GTK applications that use the
>> new-style gnomish client-side decorations.
>>
>> For the most part these applications work OK (earlier "teething"
>> problems such as doubled title bars having been resolved) but here's
>> the remaining annoyance: these programs (evince is my paradigm case,
>> but probably just because I use it much more than the others) want to
>> resize themselves at the drop of a hat.
>>
>> If I go into evince with the mouse -- aiming to move the program by
>> its title bar, to click a button, to click a "twisty" to navigate the
>> left-hand contents pane, or to select some text -- some high
>> percentage of the time it goes into "resize-me" mode: any further
>> mouse motion resizes the window, until I click somewhere, being very
>> careful to avoid any motion in the click.
>>
>> I've tried running xfwm4 in place of sawfish and this nasty behavior
>> doesn't occur, so it seems to be a sawfish-specific problem. Any
>> ideas on how to fix it? Thanks in advance.

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