Wierd problem... I fired up GAIM this morning, and after signing on, I was presented with a window that is the size of the buttons and title tacked on by the window manager (CDE in this case). Essentially, I have a frame a few pixels wide, a minimize and maximize button, a 'window functions' button (close, minimize, etc), and between them the letters "Ga" (from "Gaim").
I can drag the window out to any size, but it immediatly snaps back into it's shrunken state. Before it does so, however, I can breifly see the gaim window redraw for one or two cycles, so I know it's there...somewhere....
Everything else appears to work fine. I can receive messages quite well, although I can click on anything tio initiate a converstaion... The debug window shows nothing unusual either...
Any ideas?
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There aren't any that I'm aware of. It worked yesterday just fine (using the CVS snapshot from a few days beofre that...). I update to today's CVS snapshot, but that didn't help at all (which I expected).
I'll muck around in the various X config files...
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Actually, for people who don't want to hunting around in the config file, would having some way of resetting the geometry be feasible? Perhaps a setting in one of the option tabs to enforce a 'sane' setting?
Just an idea, and I don't know how much use it would be. An entry in a FAQ perhaps?
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Wierd problem... I fired up GAIM this morning, and after signing on, I was presented with a window that is the size of the buttons and title tacked on by the window manager (CDE in this case). Essentially, I have a frame a few pixels wide, a minimize and maximize button, a 'window functions' button (close, minimize, etc), and between them the letters "Ga" (from "Gaim").
I can drag the window out to any size, but it immediatly snaps back into it's shrunken state. Before it does so, however, I can breifly see the gaim window redraw for one or two cycles, so I know it's there...somewhere....
Everything else appears to work fine. I can receive messages quite well, although I can click on anything tio initiate a converstaion... The debug window shows nothing unusual either...
Any ideas?
Possibly your indow manager has a 'remember window size(s)' option that you need to disable.
There aren't any that I'm aware of. It worked yesterday just fine (using the CVS snapshot from a few days beofre that...). I update to today's CVS snapshot, but that didn't help at all (which I expected).
I'll muck around in the various X config files...
I nuked the 'blist_pos {}' line in my gaimrc file, and that fixed the problem... <shrug>
Woops!
Actually, for people who don't want to hunting around in the config file, would having some way of resetting the geometry be feasible? Perhaps a setting in one of the option tabs to enforce a 'sane' setting?
Just an idea, and I don't know how much use it would be. An entry in a FAQ perhaps?
Yeah, t hat's definately doable.