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infinite

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Registered: 2015-11-03

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Resize xfdesktop

How can we resize the desktop ?
I'm trying to make a kde-like desktop.
I succeed with others wm but not with xfwm4 .

There is a property "zoom-desktop" in xfwm4 channel of xfconf, is it related ?
I set it to false but it didn't change anything .

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: Resize xfdesktop

How can we resize the desktop ?
I'm trying to make a kde-like desktop.
I succeed with others wm but not with xfwm4 .

Can you explain in more detail what you mean by "resize the desktop" and "kde-like"?

There is a property "zoom-desktop" in xfwm4 channel of xfconf, is it related ?
I set it to false but it didn't change anything .

xfwm4 allows the user to zoom into the desktop as needed. For this to happen, zoom_desktop must be set to true and you need to use the mouse scroll button with the "Key used to grab and move windows" (easy_click) from Settings Manager > Windows Manager Tweaks > Accessibility tab. (Also described here with video demonstrating functionality).

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infinite

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Re: Resize xfdesktop

I'm trying to resize the desktop as a window , because it is a window .
For instance with wmctrl :

$ wmctrl -lG
0x01400003 -1 0    0    1360 768  mx1 Desktop

wmctrl -i -r 0x01400003 -e 0,0,0,200,300

,but it doesn't work, why?

ToZ

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Re: Resize xfdesktop

Not exactly sure, but if you run "xprop" and select the desktop you'll see that the _NET_WM_ACTION_RESIZE is not supported (see the _NET_WM_ALLOWED_ACTIONS(ATOM) atom). To be honest, I don't understand why you want to resize the desktop. What exactly are you trying to accomplish?

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MountainDewManiac

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Re: Resize xfdesktop

I always looked at the desktop as the space in which windows exist (rather than as a window, itself). Maybe the developers do, too?

Regards,
MDM

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