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Tiny windows in TWM

#565
From: Obi-Wan
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:08
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Hello all,

My office has compiled the TWM from the standard X distribution
and has been running it on 386 & 486 PC's.  One thing we've noticed
is that, for an app which brings up multiple windows, if you click
in the TWM title bar before the title is actually drawn there, any
subsequent windows for that app will come up with zero size.  They're
still there, but you must resize them manually, assuming you can
find them at all.

Since impatient people with mice tend to click the mouse when they
don't know what else to do, this problem occurs much more frequently
on the slower machines.  We've only been able to duplicate this
once on a workstation, and it took quite a few tries on a bogged down
machine before we finally did it.

Has anyone else encountered this problem?  More importantly, does
anyone out there know how to fix this?  Just saying "Don't click in
the title bar" may work for programmers, but it's an inacceptable
solution for our computer-illiterate customers.  ANY input would be
appreciated.  Please mail responses to bvh@cse.unl.edu, as I don't
read these groups very often.

				Thanks in advance,
				Obi-Wan

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From: bvh@cse.unl.edu (Obi-Wan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps,comp.windows.x
Subject: Tiny windows in TWM
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Date: 23 Dec 1992 05:08:17 GMT
Organization: MicroImages, Inc.
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Keywords: twm, windows, window manager, tiny, small, size