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Hi. I use Firefox, either with the inbuilt toolbar or tint2. I have been alternating recently before I settle on a style.
I am having a problem with Firefox. It just won't behave. It wont resize properly or precisely, and often will go below either the toolbar or tint2. If I maximize it it sometimes goes so I can't click the titlebar anymore, which means I can't easily restore the window. This is really frustrating.
I tested with other applications, abiword and epdfview, both of which also use gtk and they don't have this problem. Whenever I maximise them they never go below tint2 or the fluxbox toolbar or outside the screen, and I can resize them as precisely as I like. Even other applications like mplayer respect this.
So, why is Firefox the only application that acts like this? Is their any way to get Firefox to behave properly? Surely others have experienced what I have described, and perhaps some have come up with a solution that involes making firefox behave, as opposed to hiding the effects of firefox misbheaving.
It almost sounds like there is an exception for Firefox in the fluxbox configuration. I use openbox, which is based on fluxbox, and I know I can specify in the configuration for certain programs to behave differently than others. It's worth a look inside your fluxbox configuration files, I think (which should be located at ~/.fluxbox/).
First though, I would recommend uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox, and perhaps even reinstalling fluxbox if the problem persists.
My mistake, then. I must be recalling incorrectly.
edit: I see. Openbox and fluxbox were both originally based off of blackbox.
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Openbox originated as a fork of the Blackbox window manager at a time when a number of window managers forked off of Blackbox, such as Waimea and Fluxbox.
And then Openbox 3 was completely rewritten from scratch.
Okay, cool, thanks. Since you know so much about these window managers, maybe you could help solve the original poster's problem instead of wasting your time correcting me?
It almost sounds like there is an exception for Firefox in the fluxbox configuration. I use openbox, which is based on fluxbox, and I know I can specify in the configuration for certain programs to behave differently than others. It's worth a look inside your fluxbox configuration files, I think (which should be located at ~/.fluxbox/).
First though, I would recommend uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox, and perhaps even reinstalling fluxbox if the problem persists.
I don't have anything set for firefox at all. It just seem to be some strange behavior specific to firefox. Has no one else really encountered this?
If I maximise and then restore the status button will be below tint2, if I try to resize the window so I can see it I just jumps back to where it was. It seems to be a hard thing to pindown.
Is there any reason FF would behave differently from other apps?
I use tint2 (with openbox) too but haven't encountered such problems. You could try either other window manager or starting firefox with clean test profile (firefox -profilemanager).
This definitely looks like WM exception for firefox window. Read man pages about fluxbox to see which config files it uses, then remove (or rename) the ones which belong to your user account. If this helps, you can then investigate which part of them leads to such behavior.
This definitely looks like WM exception for firefox window. Read man pages about fluxbox to see which config files it uses, then remove (or rename) the ones which belong to your user account. If this helps, you can then investigate which part of them leads to such behavior.
Ahh, it's definitly not. It is the same under all user accounts, and I have no custom configs set.
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