[Xquartz-dev] quartz-wm zoom button

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Dec 4, 2008, at 08:28, Viv Kendon wrote:

> I've just installed it [quartz-wm-20081203], and the maximise button  
> does more or less sensible things from my point of view, it  
> maximises to fill the monitor that contains the top left corner of  
> the window (I should mention I don't use really use these buttons at  
> all, because I almost never want my windows maximised.  What I do  
> want is to maximise them vertically without changing the width, and  
> I have fvwm programmed to do that with its equivalent buttons.  But  
> that's waiting for when full screen gets a bit more work on it...)
>
> I did just notice there is a slightly odd effect if I try to move a  
> window to the very top of the secondary monitor (which is to the  
> right of the primary in my case, and exactly the same height).  If I  
> move the mouse to the very top, the window gets dropped a menu bar  
> width below the top. But if I'm careful not to get the mouse right  
> at the top, I can correctly position a window right at the top.  If  
> the window is partly on both monitors (so part of it is going behind  
> the menu bar), the jumping down happens when the window reaches the  
> very top, regardless of whether the mouse is at the top or not.  Not  
> a show stopper, but something to fix when you are next wandering  
> around that bit of the code.

Yeah, I think I fixed that just now.  It's an artifact of the 3  
different coordinate system's we're jumping between (NS* has an  
inverted Y compared to X11) and the ownership rule for region  
boundaries in computer graphics.  Boring details aside, I think this  
should fix that particular problem:

http://people.freedesktop.org/~jeremyhu/quartz-wm-20081204.bz2

> BTW, when I downloaded rc2, I noticed there is Xquartz-1.4.2- 
> apple26.bz2 in the available files.  Are we supposed to be playing  
> with this?  The one I have installed from rc2 says it is xorg-server  
> 1.4.2-apple25.  I did try installing the -apple26 one, but it does  
> very strange things with window placement, so I rapidly uninstalled  
> it.

Really?  How so?  There's actually not much difference between the two  
versions.  Just;

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