[Fluxbox-users] quadrant resizing mode setting?

[Wil Clouser]

Hi,

I installed fluxbox (1.3.2-2) on a fresh install of Ubuntu 12 beta.
When I tried to right-click resize I discovered it would resize the
window based on where the mouse was clicked. After some googling I
discovered this was called "Quadrant Resizing" and found some
documentation that said I could toggle it in the .flubox/init file.
I've never had to do this before to have fluxbox work "normally"
(normally, being, it always resizes to the bottom right) but I figured
a default had changed. I put this line in my .fluxbox/init file:

session.screen0.resizeMode: Bottom

After restarting fluxbox it doesn't appear to have made any
difference. I can change other values in the init file which affect
fluxbox so I know it's using that file, but the resizeMode doesn't
change. Am I doing something wrong? Or maybe it's not actually
called resizeMode?

Thanks for any ideas,

Wil

[Mathias Gumz]

heya,

Post by Wil Clouser
I installed fluxbox (1.3.2-2) on a fresh install of Ubuntu 12 beta.
When I tried to right-click resize I discovered it would resize the
window based on where the mouse was clicked. After some googling I
discovered this was called "Quadrant Resizing" and found some
documentation that said I could toggle it in the .flubox/init file.

you are refering to the official documentation or something you found
somewhere in the interwebs?

Post by Wil Clouser
I've never had to do this before to have fluxbox work "normally"
(normally, being, it always resizes to the bottom right) but I figured
session.screen0.resizeMode: Bottom
After restarting fluxbox it doesn't appear to have made any
difference. I can change other values in the init file which affect

the resize-mode setting was moved into the keys-file. and thus you can
find the documentation here at

http://fluxbox.org/help/man-fluxbox-keys.php

which reads like:

StartResizing [corner]
Start dragging to resize the window as if you had grabbed
the window at the specified corner.

By default corner is BottomRight, but may be overridden with one
of:

NearestCorner NearestEdge
TopLeft Top TopRight
Left Center Right
BottomLeft Bottom BottomRight

so, you should change the "StartReszing" line in your .fluxbox/keys
file to something you like (i'd assume "bottom" will please you :))

cheers,
mathias
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[Wil Clouser]

Post by Mathias Gumz
heya,

Post by Wil Clouser
I installed fluxbox (1.3.2-2) on a fresh install of Ubuntu 12 beta.
When I tried to right-click resize I discovered it would resize the
window based on where the mouse was clicked.  After some googling I
discovered this was called "Quadrant Resizing" and found some
documentation that said I could toggle it in the .flubox/init file.

you are refering to the official documentation or something you found
somewhere in the interwebs?

Post by Wil Clouser
I've never had to do this before to have fluxbox work "normally"
(normally, being, it always resizes to the bottom right) but I figured
 session.screen0.resizeMode: Bottom
After restarting fluxbox it doesn't appear to have made any
difference.  I can change other values in the init file which affect

the resize-mode setting was moved into the keys-file. and thus you can
find the documentation here at
 http://fluxbox.org/help/man-fluxbox-keys.php
 StartResizing [corner]
    Start dragging to resize the window as if you had grabbed
    the window at the specified corner.
    By default corner is BottomRight, but may be overridden with one
       NearestCorner NearestEdge
       TopLeft Top TopRight
       Left Center Right
       BottomLeft Bottom BottomRight
so, you should change the "StartReszing" line in your .fluxbox/keys
file to something you like (i'd assume "bottom" will please you :))
cheers,
mathias
--
 [uid] mathias gumz [mail] akira at fluxbox dot org [pgp] 1024D/F6F6B18C
 [www] http://www.darkshed.net/ [irc] ak|ra (#fluxbox at freenode.org)

Thanks Mathias. Setting to "BottomRight" fixes my troubles.

I did a lot of googling when trying to figure out the name of what I
was experiencing (eventually coming across "quadrant resizing") and it
led me to http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php?title=Editing_the_init_file
which gave the info which I originally posted with. It does make
sense to put it in the keys file though.

Thanks for the help!

Wil