Smart Maximize in Fvwm

[cga]

You know how on a Mac if you hit the "maximze" button, the window expands to whatever size it needs to be to display the contents vice the Windoze-style of just blowing up to cover the whole screen?

Can I setup Fvwm to do that? I have set it to limit the size of a maximixed window, but I rather liked the feature in the Mac and would like to reproduce it.

[demian]

The problem with such a behaviour is that the wm would need info on the optimal geometry of an application window. The ICCCM defines the WM_SIZE_HINTS for that but not all applications make use of this feature (very few actually). So, no, there is no straight-forward way to implement the MACish maximize function with fvwm or any X window manager for that matter.

Maybe you can write a funtion to read out the WM_SIZE_HINTS and set the geometry accordingly but I wouldn't know how to do this from the top of my head.

Resources:
ICCCM, EWMH

[cga]

[quote author=demian link=board=6;threadid=7961;start=0#msg72785 date=1066568083]
The problem with such a behaviour is that the wm would need info on the optimal geometry of an application window. The ICCCM defines the WM_SIZE_HINTS for that but not all applications make use of this feature (very few actually). So, no, there is no straight-forward way to implement the MACish maximize function with fvwm or any X window manager for that matter.

Maybe you can write a funtion to read out the WM_SIZE_HINTS and set the geometry accordingly but I wouldn't know how to do this from the top of my head.

Resources:
ICCCM, EWMH
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That's kind of what I suspected. It would be beyond me to even attempt to implement such a thing, and I rather doubt that it would work anyway. Unix + X is quite a different beast than the Mac.

No biggie, really.