[ale] Maddening xv (or wm?) behavior

Scott Nolde smnoldelinux at mediaone.net
Thu Feb 1 17:44:36 EST 2001


Use the Alt+Left mouse combination to move any window in X.

- Scott

"Joseph A. Knapka" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Please forgive for this incredibly lame question.
> 
> I'm doing some stuff where I need to grab images from windows
> using xv. I'm running Gnome with Sawfish as the wm. The
> problem is that no matter how I set the window-manager
> settings, xv without fail places its image window at the
> very top of the screen, with the title bar off the edge
> so I can't move the bloody window! I've been wading
> through the Gnome documentation, but haven't found any
> obvious way to move a window whose title bar is off the
> screen. I have the same problem occasionally with other
> apps as well, but xv is very stubborn about it. This is
> really driving me nuts; any help is appreciated.
> 
> -- Joe Knapka
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