KDE and Xgterm Window Resizing

Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Apr 19, 2000

> We are having some problems with xgterm here.  We are running under
> RedHat Linux v6.1 with the KDE window manager.  Here are the problems:
> 
> 1) When we resize the window, the plot is not resized unless it gets
> redrawn by executing whatever command generated the plot again.  Should
> the plot in the window be resized automatically as the window itself is
> resized?
> 
> 2) On some machines, any attempt to resize the xgterm window (and only
> the xgterm window) causes the window to shrink to a tiny size, from
> which it can never be resized larger using the mouse.  It's almost as
> if the window is fighting the user to stay small.  Any ideas on what
> would cause this?

        I stumbled across the same thing a few days ago and as near as I
can tell it's either a bug in the KWM window manager or the Qt toolkit
used.  The workaround is to bring up the KDE Control Panel and get into
the Windows.Properties form.  In the top "Windows" panel disable the option
which says "Display content in resizing windows" and hit apply.  The 
gterm window should then resize correctly.  Your first problem with the
plot not redrawing I've only ever seen once but not since I found this
workaround. 

-Mike

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