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Bug 468918 - Show geometry resize popup for normal windows
Show geometry resize popup for normal windows
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 130821
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-08-21 16:29 UTC by Sven Arvidsson
Modified: 2007-08-22 01:38 UTC
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Description Sven Arvidsson 2007-08-21 16:29:26 UTC 
[ Forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/293708 ]

"The geometry should always appear when resizing windows.

It works with pseudo-text windows like gnome-terminal or xterm but not with graphical windows like galeon or xload.

I'm used to see the window geometry under wmaker when resizing windows, it's useful for example to resize your browser to 800x600 in order to produce 800x600 desktop compliant web sites."
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2007-08-21 16:34:17 UTC 
(this bug is a dup, too lazy to look up the dup)

On the dup, I believe the conclusion was that the developing-a-web-site-for-800x600 is the only use case anyone could come up with for showing the pixel size on all windows.

It's not worth showing this weirdly technical and distracting info on all windows, just for that occasional web developer use-case. Instead, there are Firefox extensions that will pop your browser window to common screen sizes, for example. IOW a solution specific to the web dev use case should be used, not a generic WM change for all windows.
Comment 2 Sven Arvidsson 2007-08-21 16:40:43 UTC 
(I looked for duplicates but couldn't find it.)

Your explanation sounds very reasonable, I'm closing this as NOTABUG.
Comment 3 Elijah Newren 2007-08-22 01:37:57 UTC 
Reopening to resolve as a duplicate.
Comment 4 Elijah Newren 2007-08-22 01:38:08 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130821 ***