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BetterLeftUnsaid

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From: My Happy Place

Registered: 2007-11-04

Posts: 78

Cannot completely maximize apps.

Hello Archers,

I'm having a bit of a problem with maximizing apps.  Right now, clicking the maximize button will only make the applications grow to part of the screen, instead of all of it.  See, a pretty picture:

http://takepotatoes.in/wp-content/uploads/pic.png

And that file manager is considered maximized, at least by Openbox.

However, if I drag the apps to the bottom-right corner (beyond the border of fake-maximization), they will maximize completely.  So, I don't really know what's happening.  I suppose it could be an xorg bug or a bug with the intel driver, because I have an Intel 4500MHD graphics card,  so I need the intel driver that's in testing (and thus the xorg-server that's in testing, too).  Or maybe it's an Openbox bug~ I dunno.

Uhh, some info:

xrandr:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1440 x 900, maximum 1440 x 1440
VGA disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS connected 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1440x900       60.2*+   59.9  
   1360x768       59.8  
   1152x864      100.0     85.1     85.0     75.0     75.0     70.0     60.0  
   1024x768       85.0     75.0     70.1     60.0  
   832x624        74.6  
   800x600        85.1     72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2  
   640x480        85.0     72.8     75.0     59.9  
   720x400        85.0  
   640x400        85.1  
   640x350        85.1  
HDMI-1 connected 1360x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1360x768       59.8* 
   1152x864       60.0  
   1024x768       60.0  
   800x600        60.3  
   640x480        59.9  
HDMI-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

xorg.conf: http://takepotatoes.in/wp-content/uploads/xorg

Thanks in advance.

dav7

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 674

Re: Cannot completely maximize apps.

Try poking around in rc.xml in ~/.config/openbox/ in the margins section - top, bottom, left and right should be set to minimal values, like 0. If yours are wildly out, set them all back to 0.

If you prefer a GUI method, install obconf if it isn't already installed and use its margin configuration section to check/scale back the aforementioned values.

-dav7

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BetterLeftUnsaid

Member

From: My Happy Place

Registered: 2007-11-04

Posts: 78

Re: Cannot completely maximize apps.

All the margins are at 0 (well, except for the bottom, but that's because I keep a panel there).

Now that I think about it ... this problem only started happening once I upgraded to the new intel and xorg packages that are in testing.  Using the vesa driver + stable xorg didn't have this problem.  I'd be willing to downgrade, but then X crashes when I try to watch fullscreen videos or when starting OpenOffice. : (

joaca_rj

Member

From: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 76

Re: Cannot completely maximize apps.

I know this post is a little old, but....
since new xorg in extra, with kms enabled, this problem started to happen with me as well....
oddly, if I quit openbox and then come back all is normal....
???

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: Cannot completely maximize apps.

I have this issue with KMS enabled too, all is fine when I disable KMS...