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Posted: July 07 2006,22:29 QUOTE

Greetings,

I recently upgraded from a really customized version of slackware on my 11 year old Toshiba Libretto 50ct (pentium 75, 640x480, etc) to DSL.  I am loving it so far; it runs beautifully on 21 meg of ram with a 100 meg swap file.

I am relatively new at using Fluxbox although not at all new at using *nix and X.  Everything has been customizable to my liking except the sizing of the windows.  For some reason on a 640x480 screen fluxbox maximizes the window beyond the edge of the monitor on all four sides for most applications.  I have to switch over to another VWM panel, drag the window across so I can click on the top controls, and then maximize the window which shrinks it down to the size I want.

Short of using command line placement options in the menu configuration for every application I run, is there a way I can tell Fluxbox to load applications maximized and at 100% of the screen no matter what?

paz,
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Posted: July 20 2006,07:25 QUOTE

Hi vsteven

It seems that a few people including myself are interested in getting a Libretto like yours to run DSL.

Any chance of posting exactly how you did it including any settings inc video, sound etc.

Also what can you run with that much ram?

TIA
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Posted: July 20 2006,07:32 QUOTE

ctrl + left mouse click to drag the whole window.
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Posted: July 20 2006,07:57 QUOTE

Looking at some fluxbox options.. you could try using
session.screen0.fullMaximization: true
in your ~/.fluxbox/init
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Posted: July 20 2006,13:12 QUOTE

Quote (kerry @ July 20 2006,03:32)
ctrl + left mouse click to drag the whole window.

Correction: Alt + left mouse to drag a window.
Alt + right mouse to resize.

Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ July 20 2006,03:57)
session.screen0.fullMaximization: true

That does not make the windows maximize.  It merely allows the windows to cover the toolbar when you maximize them.

I don't know of any way to force automatic window sizes in Fluxbox 0.1.14.  I'd set a hotkey in .fluxbox/keys to maximize a window if it were an important issue for me:
Code Sample
Mod1 F5 Maximize
Mod1 Shift F5 Minimize


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http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html
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