kde desktop real estate

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 03:42 +0200, Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> On Saturday 23 October 2010, Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 17:53 -0400, shawn wilson wrote:
> > > i've been trying to figure out for the past three days how to
> > > get this bar at the top of my desktop to go away. today i
> > > realize that it isn't a bar i'm looking at but that when i
> > > maximize an application, it doesn't maximize all the way to the
> > > top of the screen. in fact, i can manually resize applications
> > > to span over this "bar" however they won't maximize there.
> > > where is the setting to fix this behavior? and why isn't this
> > > better documented? (this is seriously a last resort)
> > 
> > Just encountered the same thing on a fresh install, after we
> > reduced the screen size. Evolution's window was larger than the
> > desktop area and I couldn't get it to resize. Gotta be a way to
> > easily do this, Ric
> 
> a) How's this the same thing?

Well, number friggin' one, it sounded close to me, OK? 

> b.1) Drag with the left mouse button while holding down the Alt key.
> b.2) Select the application in the window list in the panel and
>      select "maximise"
> b.3) Press Alt+F3 and select either move or maximise
> 
> Now, surely you could have been expected to find at least *one* of 
> those solutions... (Unmaximised windows may be dragged outside the 
> area of the desktop, so this likely isn't even a proper bug!)

Not sure how all of the above was "obvious". To me, it's not, so I asked
about my case, which appeared to be related. I appreciate the answer
though. Thank you, Ric


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"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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