WinXP Taskbar Overlaps Maximized xterm

[Larry Hall (Cygwin X)]

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
> 
>> There's a similar issue with KDE and xterm on RHEL 3.  So it could 
>> also be
> 
> "is" doesn't appear to be the right tense, since RHEL 3 was released a few
> years ago and is not the current version.
> 
> iirc, cygwin's still distributing xterm patch #202, which is more recent 
> than RHEL 3 (mid-2005).  I made improvements to the layout in the latter
> part of 2005, so it would for example maximize as expected.  On the 
> other hand, it still doesn't re-maximize if the font size is changed 
> while maximized.
> 
>> an upstream problem in xterm, if it still exits in the current version.
>> You might want to check that out.  I don't see the problem with konsole.
> 
> given that konsole was developed as part of KDE, that's understandable...
> 

Don't get too hung up on my references to KDE and RHEL 3.  They were what
I had available at the time to test and respond with.  The points I wanted to
make were that this issue isn't necessarily a Cygwin-specific one and that
there may be fixes available in later versions of these tools as a result.


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