Re: [Pan-users] Minimum application's window width

[Mateusz Viste]

Well, my real problem is not truly about the general Pan window's width 
(although I guess it is related), but with the fact that sometimes Pan 
decides to make my list's group (that I keep as a column on the left side 
of the Pan window) very narrow, or even 0-pixel wide. This is very 
dynamic, because it is triggered when I click on some articles or 
threads. In such situation, it is impossible to manually bring back the 
list of groups, unless I also make the entire Pan window larger than my 
screen is.

I tried playing with the width of headers in the headers window, as well 
as enabling/disabling the wrapping feature inside the message window, but 
none of these actions cured the symptoms.

This is a laptop, and I am using a 1600x900 resolution which - I think - 
is not *that* small.

Mateusz


On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 21:54:05 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> Mateusz Viste posted on Fri, 29 Sep 2017 11:39:20 +0000 as excerpted:
> 
>> It sometimes happens that Pan doesn't let me reduce the width of the
>> application's window below some size. Often in such situation, the
>> "minimum" size it requires is wider than my computer's screen, which is
>> obviously inconvenient.
>> 
>> I do not understand what causes Pan to enforce a minimum window size -
>> I tried resizing all columns in the header pane, but without any impact
>> on Pan's global width.
>> 
>> What should I look after?
> 
> In the past the main pan window's minimum width has been due to the
> number of items in the toolbar.  Is that what you're seeing?  You're
> "sometimes" suggests that it it might be more dynamic than that?
> 
> FWIW I've long used kwin window rules to set my main pan window size,
> both initial and minimum, and I'm using huge monitors (a 65-inch UHD/4K
> for my primary), so I've not had to worry about this for quite some
> time,
> but I did have a netbook as second machine, some years ago, that I had
> some problems with, but not with pan, as IIRC its toolbar-defined pixel
> minimum width was still under the 1024 pixel width of the netbook.  But
> there have been occasional reports from others with the problem, and the
> number of toolbar elements turned out to be defining the main window's
> minimum width.
> 
> The other problem people, including me, have had, has been with the
> preferences window.  I've always been able to force that to behave with
> kwin window rules too, here, but I've certainly had the problem without
> them, and I honestly don't know what people do if they're seeing that
> problem on a window manager that doesn't have the flexibility of kwin to
> *force* window sizes via window rules.  But your question appears to be
> about the main window, not prefs.