[Bf-committers] Re: Linux, Windowed by default (patch, needs discussion)

[Campbell Barton]

This is an issue with the window manager, (or even just the theme 
settings), if you want Split vertically and press Tab or MMB.

Michael Robinson wrote:
> I'm a linux guy, and I greatly prefer running in windowed mode, but
> there is one big flaw with windowed mode.  My window manager grabs the
> cursor before it reaches the edge of the blender window.  This makes
> it extremely difficult to horizontally split a view.  It might be
> possible to reconfigure my window manager, but  a better solution (for
> me) would be to widen the sensitive area at the left and right side of
> the window.
> 
> I have been debating whether or not I should try and submit a patch
> that widens the area you can click on to split a window.  It is only
> necessary to change the area at the left and right edges of the
> window, and not the internal space borders.  I haven't looked at the
> relevant code, but I suspect that treating the window borders as a
> special case might be more trouble than it is worth.
> 
> On 4/10/07, Daniel Genrich <daniel.genrich at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I really love that patch because it enables the possibility to use
>> Blender with Beryl window manager (linux) enabled.
>> It's sort of pain to switch the window manager each time you want to use
>> Blender and every other application just works fine.
>> This great patch changes that!
>>
>> Greetings and good work!
>> Daniel (Genscher)
>>
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > Message: 1
>> > Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:10:05 +1000
>> > From: Campbell Barton <cbarton at metavr.com>
>> > Subject: [Bf-committers]      Linux, Windowed by default (patch, needs
>> >       discussion)
>> > To: bf-blender developers <bf-committers at projects.blender.org>
>> > Message-ID: <461A1F0D.8050909 at metavr.com>
>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>> >
>> > Hi, We need to discuss making windowed default on linux (rather then
>> > fullscreen)
>> > - obvious reasons, make it easy for the new user and advanced users can
>> > make it fullscreen if they like.
>> >
>> >
>> > The patch makes blender work like Windows (mac too?)
>> >
>> > blender -W # will run fullscreen, otherwise windowed
>> >
>> > 
>> http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=127&aid=6391&group_id=9 
>>
>> >
>>
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