Re: change width of window list menu

Cormac Long wrote:
> I've been on a customer site all week reading through lots of word and 
> PDF files with OO and evince, with many open at a time. Because of the 
> titles being very large in most of them,  I ended up extending the width 
> to 640 to give me more readability.
> 
> I can obviously use the Windows menu of openoffice to jump to a file, 
> but the window list is so much cooler as it can be access on all 
> desktops. Mine is normally pinned and slid off screen so that when I 
> hover over it, it slides into view. right now, a large portion of screen 
> can be taken up when this 640 pixel wide window slides into view.. but 
> its perfect for navigating the long window titles caused by the docs.
> 
> It would be a great feature to add to Wprefs and make it run-time 
> customisable or at least in the configure options
> 

I strongly agree.  160 pixels is way too small and especially on high 
resolution screens like mine (1680x1050).  Having it configurable would 
help a lot.  It could actually be set either in pixels or as a 
percentage of the screen.  That would rock. :-))

Cheers,

Martin

> On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 14:29 -0400, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
> 
>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>Hash: SHA1
>>
>>On 2005-04-18 13:52:08 -0400 Norm Finlay <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to make the window list menu wider?  So far my 
>>> searching has 
>>> not located any help.
>>
>>Not without recompiling. The resource is changed in wconfig.h, look
>>for the line containing: MAX_WINDOWLIST_WIDTH.
>>
>>Charles
>>
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> Regards,
>    Cormac
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> _______________________________________________
> INFO: https://windowmaker.org/lists/listinfo/wm-user
> ARCHIVE: https://windowmaker.org/lists/archive/wm-user/
> FAQ: http://windowmaker.org/faq.html

_______________________________________________
INFO: https://windowmaker.org/lists/listinfo/wm-user
ARCHIVE: https://windowmaker.org/lists/archive/wm-user/
FAQ: http://windowmaker.org/faq.html