Window manager for power users?

[Adam Gibson]

Tony Nelson wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the tip.  I noticed the resize feature of the taskbar before 
but didn't know how to use it and forgot about it since then.  I am sure 
this is documented somewhere but never took the time to look for it.

I do still think that if a window appears that is bigger than the 
desktop an auto-resize of the Y window size to the maximum screen 
resolution and placing the window at the top of the screen would be 
useful and would make things more user-friendly.  There probably is a 
window manager that does that somewhere on the net.