[Mageia-discuss] Display window dimensions when resizing

[Florian Hubold]

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.