[kde-linux] forcing new non-KDE windows to a size

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 07:08, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 December 2006 07:17, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 December 2006 05:00, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > On Monday 11 December 2006 19:44, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > > > I use Netscape 7.2 in a 640x1200 (minus my launchbar height)
> > > > window. Somewhere along the way, some site I went to popped up a
> > > > full-screen window, and ever since, whenever I open a new Netscape
> > > > window with Ctrl-N I get a full-screen window, when before I'd get
> > > > a window of the same size as the original. I fiddled with the
> > > > Special Window Settings and Special Application Settings, but all
> > > > I could do was make _every_ window, whether through Ctrl-N or a
> > > > site-generated popup, open at the size I specified.
> > > >
> > > > I want Ctrl-N to give me a new window with the size I like, and
> > > > all other (popup) windows, to stay at whatever they're told to be.
> > > > How can I do that?
> > >
> > > I guess the best option is to reset the behavior of netscape.
> > > Probably a setting in its preferences or stored in the netscape
> > > configuration file.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Kevin
> >
> > What use are the Special {Window, Application} Settings feature then?
>
> Well, as you said it affects Netscape windows regardless how they are
> opened. Since only the program itself, in this case Netscape, knows why
> it opened a window, it is the only one which can control this
> difference.
>
> > Netscape doesn't have any window-size settings.
>
> Your description sounded like it does, i.e. changing the behavior once a
> window got maximized by a site.
>
> If there is no override policy on the window manager's side, the window
> will always be the size the application wants it to be.

You are correct - thanks for pressing. I did a lot more Googling, and while 
here is nothing in the NS interface to affect this behaviour, there is a 
configuration file that can be edited to reset this. It's called 
localstore.rdf, and contains the window settings for all parts of NS. I 
had to specify the dimensions I wanted, AND set 'sizemode' 
from 'maximized' to 'normal' for the "navigator.xul#main-window" window. 

Thanks.