[kde-linux] Why is gvim ONLY app which does not behave?

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On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 06:02:58PM -0400, Bernard Barton wrote:
> I just upgraded to Fedora 7, with KDE 3.5.7.  Everything looks great
> EXCEPT for gvim!  This includes all of the GTK based apps I've run.
> But gvim would not maximize correctly until I in the KDE Control Center
> under "Window behavior" I checked "Allow moving and resizing of maximized
> windows".  Now I can maximize the window, but it's larger than the screen
> area.  Good grief.  Before checking this option, If I tried to maximize
> gvim,
> it would just bounce back to about 85% maximized position.  I also tried to
> set the geometry in gvim's window menu in the "Special window settings"
> dialog, but still the window would not maximize.  Anyone have any idea
> why gvim doesn't want to play nicely with KDE?

i doubt it's kde's fault -- i am using kde on suse 10.2 and
gvim acts just like it's supposed to (my vim is version
7.1.93)

my kde is 3.5.something, where i *think* the something is 5
(i'm not sure how to tell)

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