[Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts

[russo at bogodyn.org]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 10:46:55AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jason at ke4nyv.com> flavor, containing:
>    Unfortunately, the most important windows "Station", "Timing", ect are the
>    ones that I can't access the buttons on.  Is FVWM something that I can
>    install in Debian Wheezy or is it something that is built into particular
>    X-Windows interfaces?

FVWM is a window manager that can certainly be installed in Wheezy, but
getting it to run and play nice with the other parts of your desktop 
environment may be a challenge (I run fvwm on my BSD box, and don't run any
part of GNOME there, but on my Ubuntu laptop have not bothered to change from
the default window manager (metacity)).

https://wiki.debian.org/WindowManager

See especially the line at the end that says "Window Managers must
not be confused with Desktop Environments" for additional confusion.

See http://www.fvwm.org/documentation/faq/ (question 2.8) for some hints
about getting fvwm to work as GNOME's window manager (assuming you're 
using GNOME).  If you're using a different desktop environment, you might
have to resort to Google.  Unless you luck out and find someone here who
has done it on Wheezy.

Full-blown desktop environments may be overkill for small-screen systems
like you're using (which is why Curt used it on his).   But FVWM is pretty
old-school (as are Curt and I), so it might not be the perfect fit for you.
The main thing that is useful about it for this applicaiton is that you can 
define a "virtual desktop" that is larger than your physical screen, and when 
you move the mouse off the edge of the screen it moves to a different part of 
the virtual desktop.  That can help when a window pops up that is larger than
the physical screen --- it'll just occupy a different part of the virtual
desktop.

> 
>    From: "Curt, WE7U" <curt.we7u at gmail.com>
>    To: "russo at bogodyn.org" <russo at bogodyn.org>
>    Cc: Jason Rausch <jason at ke4nyv.com>; Xastir - APRS client software
>    discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>; "Curt, WE7U" <curt.we7u at gmail.com>
>    Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2014 1:00 PM
>    Subject: Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
>    On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, [1]russo at bogodyn.org wrote:
> 
>    > On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 07:19:51AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron
>    collision of the <[2]jason at ke4nyv.com> flavor, containing:
>    >>    Tom,
>    >>    Thanks for explaining that.  I can see the mouse behavior change and
>    the
>    >>    change to the bottom status bar, but any menu that was longer than
>    the
>    >>    screen is still off the bottom where I can't access the buttons.
>    Should
>    >>    this change have re-sized the windows?
>    >
>    > Can't say -- I think you might have to change font sizes or something.
>    I've
>    > already exhausted what I know about this option.  Others who have
>    actually used
>    > it will have to answer this.
> 
>    No, it won't resize.  Your only option might be to play with fonts.  I
>    remember (from years back) that there were still a few dialogs that were
>    too large for the screen, but I was using FVWM as my window manager and
>    was able to move to another virtual screen to work the rest of the dialog.
> 
>    --
>    Curt, WE7U.
>    [3]http://wetnet.net/~we7u
>    APRS Client Capabilities:
>    [4]http://wetnet.net/~we7u/aprs_capabilities.html
> 
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