[Mageia-discuss] Display window dimensions when resizing

Sun Aug 12 18:03:03 CEST 2012

Am 08.08.2012 23:00, schrieb Marc Paré:
+> Hi Shlomi,
+>
+> Le 2012-08-08 06:19, Shlomi Fish a écrit :
+>> Hi Marc,
+>>
+>> On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 23:52:05 -0400
+>> Marc Paré<marc at marcpare.com>  wrote:
+>>
+>>> Is there a way to display the dimensions of a window when I resize
+>>> it? And, is there a way to size a window to specific dimension ...
+>>> for example if I wanted to size a window to 800x600 for a screen shot?
+>>>
+>>> Thanks for the help.
+>>>
+>>> Marc
+>>>
+>>> Mageia2, KDE 4.8.2
+>>
+>> I have no idea what I did to enable it, but I'm getting a functionality of
+>> displaying
+>> the dimensions of the windows when resizing it in my KDE version.
+>>
+>> Anyway, see:
+>>
+>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61112
+>>
+>> Go to systemsettings ->  Window Behaviour ->  Window Behaviour ->  Moving
+>> ->  "Display window
+>> geometry when moving or resizing".
+>>
+>> I found it on a web search.
+>>
+>> Regards,
+>>
+>>     Shlomi Fish
+>>
+>
+> Thanks for the help. I enabled it, but it doesn't work. I am not using the
+> KDE 3D desktop if that makes any difference -- I'm running on an older slower
+> box and the 3D + effects just don't seem to play nice with the box. I am also
+> using 2 monitors.
+>
+> Cheers,
+>
+> Marc
+>
+>
+Why not simply right-click on the window title -> advanced ->
+special settingsfor this program (or window, whatever you want)
+and then under the "Size and position" tab adjust as you want?
+You can even set it to remember the settings or force them,
+and other neat things.
+