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Joe's Window Manager
http://joewing.net/projects/jwm
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[Suggestion] Window title/handle bar should not be positioned passed top of screen #29

Closed willbprog127 closed 11 years ago

willbprog127 commented 11 years ago

Some programs, such as Firefox, move their windows at startup (or during other operations) so that the title-bar / handle-bar is completely above the top of the usable screen, inaccessible. Right-clicking the program's button in the taskbar, choosing 'Move' and using the arrow keys will bring it back down.

Is there any reason to allow the window's decorations to be higher than the top of the screen? If not, would it be possible to keep that from happening, or allow at least a small amount of the title-bar / handle-bar to be seen so it can be grabbed easily?

I am aware of the 'pignore' option in the Group section as a workaround for some programs, but from a usability standpoint, having the title-bar / handle-bar completely passed the top of the screen can slow the user down, make them cry, cause worldwide catastrophes, etc

Thanks :-)

joewing commented 11 years ago

One reason that it may be desirable to allow windows to go off the top of the screen is when a window is too big to fit on the screen and there is content on the bottom of the window that needs to be accessed (a button, for example). It's an unfortunate situation, but I've had this happen to me when running JWM inside of Xnest on a small screen.

In any case, JWM shouldn't allow windows to map off the top of the screen if they fit in the visible area of the screen, but issue #28 may have caused this to happen. Is this still happening for you?

willbprog127 commented 11 years ago

Yes, #28 seems to have fixed the starting up of windows with their title-bar above the top of the screen. Nothing but happiness now that I'm rocking JWM full-time :-D

I will close this based on your explanation. Thanks again, sir!