Tk Toolkit

Tracker: Bugs

8 Tk sets min, max size in WM_HINTS when it shouldn't - ID: 915350

Last Update: Comment added ( jenglish )

Details:

(See also: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67577)

Problem: Tk toplevels always set the min_width,
min_height, max_width, and max_height fields in the
WM_NORMAL_HINTS property, even when the user has not
called [wm minsize] or [wm maxsize].

The default minimum size is 1x1 (which is redundant),
and the default maximum is taken from the size of the
screen (which is not even correct in the context of
multi-head displays).

This causes recent versions of KWM (and possibly other
WMs) to disable maximization. In any event, Tk
shouldn't specify these fields unless explicitly
instructed to.

Submitted:

Joe English ( jenglish ) - 2004-03-12 23:16

Priority:

Status:

Closed

Resolution:

Fixed

Assigned:

Jeffrey Hobbs

Category:

67. Unix Window Operations

Group:

obsolete: 8.4.6

Visibility:

Public

Comments ( 6 )

Date: 2004-04-21 02:53 Sender: jenglish Logged In: YES user_id=68433 > Please backport to core-8-4-branch. Done.
Date: 2004-04-14 22:14 Sender: hobbs Logged In: YES user_id=72656 Please backport to core-8-4-branch.
Date: 2004-04-04 20:24 Sender: jenglish Logged In: YES user_id=68433 Patch comitted; closing. (Jeff -- if you'd like me to back-port this to the 8.4 branch, let me know.)
Date: 2004-03-25 15:50 Sender: jenglish Logged In: YES user_id=68433 Jean-Luc Fontain reports (via email): > Just tried it [the patch] with moodss on Red Hat Fedora Core 1 > with kde 3.2.1 and it works just fine with both Tk 8.4.6 and 8.5a1.
Date: 2004-03-24 23:00 Sender: jenglish Logged In: YES user_id=68433 With the attached patch, Tk will only set the PMaxSize hints flag if the program has called [wm maxsize $win $x $y], with $x or $y > 0. [wm maxsize $win 0 0] (or any values <= 0) will clear the PMaxSIze bit. If one or the other of $x and $y are <= 0, but not both, it will use the screen width (resp. height) as the maximum size for that dimension. This is a conservative patch; no other behaviour should be affected, iincluding min-size hints. (However, there are probably some some now-dead code paths that should be cleaned up).
Date: 2004-03-13 12:13 Sender: nobody Logged In: NO Would you please announce in comp.lang.tcl when a patch becomes available? I would like to include it in my binarires (rpms, ...). Many thanks in advance. Jean-Luc (jfontain@free.fr)

Attached File ( 1 )

Filename	Description	Download
tk-wm-maxsize.patch		Download

Changes ( 10 )

Field	Old Value	Date	By
status_id	Open	2004-04-21 02:53	jenglish
close_date	2004-04-04 20:24	2004-04-21 02:53	jenglish
resolution_id	Remind	2004-04-21 02:53	jenglish
resolution_id	None	2004-04-14 22:14	hobbs
status_id	Closed	2004-04-14 22:14	hobbs
priority	5	2004-04-14 22:14	hobbs
status_id	Open	2004-04-04 20:24	jenglish
close_date	-	2004-04-04 20:24	jenglish
assigned_to	jenglish	2004-04-04 20:24	jenglish
File Added	81258: tk-wm-maxsize.patch	2004-03-24 23:00	jenglish

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