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Neil Youngman [ny at youngman.org.uk]
Occasionally I get a window behaving in a way I haven't seen until recently. The window is not displayed, just the title bar. When I move the cursor over the title bar the rest of the window displays, but when the cursor is moved off the window it shrinks back to just the title bar.
I assume that this is configurable behaviour in some way, but it seems to happen fairly randomly. It's most common in JBuilder (spit), but it's also happening to an xterm window at the moment.
The Window Manager is KDE and I'm running Debian Etch. Does anyone know what causes this and how to stop it?
Neil
clarjon1 [clarjon1 at gmail.com]
On 6/6/07, Neil Youngman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Occasionally I get a window behaving in a way I haven't seen until recently. > The window is not displayed, just the title bar. When I move the cursor over > the title bar the rest of the window displays, but when the cursor is moved > off the window it shrinks back to just the title bar. > > I assume that this is configurable behaviour in some way, but it seems to > happen fairly randomly. It's most common in JBuilder (spit), but it's also > happening to an xterm window at the moment. > > The Window Manager is KDE and I'm running Debian Etch. Does anyone know what > causes this and how to stop it? >Window Shading! I like the window shading, personally, but it's usually easy to fix. Depending on how the KDE is setup, (i.e., default kde settings) double clicking on the title bar will turn off the shading. There should be an option in the menu you get when you right-click on the title bar. I'd suggest going into the window decorations settings in kcontrol, and adding a button to the titlebar so that you can see if the shade is activated or not.
Hope that helps!
-- clarjon1
Neil Youngman [ny at youngman.org.uk]
On or around Wednesday 06 June 2007 13:41, clarjon1 reorganised a bunch of electrons to form the message:
> On 6/6/07, Neil Youngman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Occasionally I get a window behaving in a way I haven't seen until > > recently. The window is not displayed, just the title bar. When I move > > the cursor over the title bar the rest of the window displays, but when > > the cursor is moved off the window it shrinks back to just the title bar. > > > > I assume that this is configurable behaviour in some way, but it seems to > > happen fairly randomly. It's most common in JBuilder (spit), but it's > > also happening to an xterm window at the moment. > > > > The Window Manager is KDE and I'm running Debian Etch. Does anyone know > > what causes this and how to stop it? > > Window Shading! I like the window shading, personally, but it's > usually easy to fix. Depending on how the KDE is setup, (i.e., > default kde settings) double clicking on the title bar will turn off > the shading. There should be an option in the menu you get when you > right-click on the title bar. I'd suggest going into the window > decorations settings in kcontrol, and adding a button to the titlebar > so that you can see if the shade is activated or not. > > Hope that helps!
That definitely helps
Any idea why I randomly get some shaded windows, particularly JBuilder dialogs? I can see myself accidentally double clicking on a title bar occasionally, but when a dialog has just popped up and I haven't had a chance to click on it, why should shading be actovated sometimes , but not consistently?
Neil