Re: Window handling in -back

[Adam Fedor]

On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 12:01 PM, Chris B. Vetter wrote:

> The other two files, 'olwm' and 'mwm' contain three xwininfo(1) 
> entries,
> the first was taken from Ink -> New Document, the second is Terminal 
> and
> the third is a plain xterm.
> What I did was to use each window manager's maximize window option.
>
> As you can see, the two GNUstep applications are WAAAAY off, resulting
> in LOTS of XShm memory errors bringing the whole machine to a crawl...
>
> I tried the same with several other WMs, including BlackBox and
> AfterStep, and neither of these show the same behaviour.
>
> As I said, probably no one is still using mwm and/or ol(v)wm, but I
> thought I'd pass this on anyway...

GNUstep sets the maximum size of a a window by default to 10000 (It's 
in the OpenStep documentation that way). This is passed on as a hint to 
the window manager. Probably most window managers ignore the hint if 
it's larger than a certain size...