Hello, world!

When I maximize certain windows in Fluxbox, they don't fill the whole screen but leave a 5-15 pixel wide gap on the rigtht and/or bottom side through which I can see the desktop. With Blackbox and Openbox it's the same! I'm pretty sure this is related to the way windows are resized: I have observed that some windows are resized precisely pixel by pixel (like e.g. Firefox and Pan) while others are resized in steps/units of 5-15 pixels (like e.g. Emacs (GTK2 version), GVim and gnome-terminal), and these are the ones that do not maximize properly.
Any idea what I can do about this?

Hello moo-cow,

Just move the mouse pointer to the edge of the window and when it turns into double ended arrows....drag the edge as wide as you like.

The next time a similar window is maximized....it should go where you set it.

If you switch back and forth between window managers it may affect window behaviour in the other manager as well....

Rob C.

Hello Rob,

that doesn't work! When I do that and click on the minimize/maximize button of the window, it snaps back into the old "fullscreen" position with the gap. The edges of some windows cannot even be dragged manually to the edges of the screen because they move only in fixed steps of pixels (as I explained above)!

hmm, something odd then in the snap to grid - normally the numbers are powers of 2; ie 2 4 8 16 32 64 etc (useful habit to get into anyhow when dealing with images or anything memory based).

I would grep the fluxbox config files cd ~/.fluxbox && grep -R 5 *

Perhaps the .Xdefault and .Xresources files as well.