x-windows opening up too large

[J S]

I know this probably seems like a window manager problem but I tried 
openbox, mwm, twm, fvwm2 and all suffered the same problem as window maker.


>JS,
>
>No, sorry, I can't recommend a window manager.
>
>As I have said before, I am a terrible X Window System user.  I just happen 
>to be able to understand how to implement the X Server and how to get 
>everything compiled and packaged.
>
>You will have to hope that someone else can answer your question about 
>which window manager to use.
>
>Just as a side note: You can stick with the TWM window manager that is 
>installed with the XFree86-bin package, or you can install lesstif which 
>includes the MWM window manager, or you can install the openbox window 
>manager.  All of these are available as Cygwin setup.exe packages. There 
>may be one or two that I am forgetting as well.
>
>Harold
>
>J S wrote:
>>Harold,
>>
>>Can you recommend a decent window manager that doesn't have these sort of 
>>problems?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>JS.
>>
>>>
>>>Sounds like a WindowMaker problem to me.  You should probably ask the 
>>>people
>>>that made WindowMaker.
>>>
>>>Harold
>>
>>
>>> >
>>> > An X application we run on xfree86-windowmaker is causing
>>> > problems for users
>>> > at my work because when it pops up new windows, these windows are
>>> > sometimes
>>> > too big to fit on the screen, or the scrollbar is missing.
>>> >
>>> > Is there something I can do to fix this other than using 
>>>ALT+left/right
>>> > mouse clicks to resize these windows or better still stop them
>>> > from opening
>>> > up so large? Incidentally this problem doesn't happen on Exceed.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks for any help.
>>> >
>>> > JS.
>>> >
>>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
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