Version: (using KDE Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources Compiler: gcc (GCC) 3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux) OS: Linux It is no longer possible to resize windows via dcop to sizes larger than the working area. This was possible before kwin_iii and I used this feature regularly. If somebody asks dcop to resize a window to e.g. 2000 2000, that's for a reason, and the system should IMHO not try to be wiser. :-] Example: $ dcop `dcopstart konsole` konsole-mainwindow#1 resize 2000 2000
You're not asking dcop to do it, you're asking the application via dcop to do it. And KWin doesn't let applications grow larger than the workarea, for good reasons. Feel free to add your votes to #34882. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 34882 ***
> KWin doesn't let applications grow larger than the workarea [...] Yes, it does: Alt (or Meta)+RMB! This is a useful feature, and if it can be done with the mouse, it should be doable via dcop, too. > [...] for good reasons. Such as? I understand that a user shouldn't be allowed to place a whole window outside the working area. But why should he not be able to make a window wider? A konsole window could contain a very wide table (e.g. some logging output). Making the window narrower than the user asked to totally screws the output and makes it unreadable. Please reconsider this.
>> KWin doesn't let applications grow larger than the workarea [...] >Yes, it does: Alt (or Meta)+RMB! That's done by the user, not by the application. And that's why KWin will refuse it when the application requests it (when you ask it via dcop). And that's why I closed it as a duplicate of the other bugreport, which is about kwin's interface.