Re: Possible issue with Firefox (38.0.1) running on X Server 1.17.2

[Derby Pride <thederbypride@gmail.com>]

Thanks for your reply Jon. I'm happy to report that I tried the 32-bit
version of your updated XWin.exe which worked perfectly.

On 4 August 2015 at 18:30, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
> On 03/08/2015 16:43, Derby Pride wrote:
>>
>> I have recently upgraded Cygwin/X which upped the version of X Server
>> up to 1.17.2 (sorry, I didn't note the version that I was previously
>> using). I now enter the following into the Cygwin terminal:
>>
>>      export DISPLAY=:0.0
>>      XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -listen tcp &
>>      xhost +
>>
>> On my remote machine (a virtual RHEL5.2) I give the following commands:
>>
>>      export DISPLAY=%server_ip%:0.0
>>      firefox &
>>
>> Firefox launches successfully on my server machine. However, the
>> maximize button is disabled (all other buttons are present and
>> enabled). Resizing the window by dragging the edges works as expected
>> but there appears to be no way to maximize (double clicking the title
>> bar does not work either).
>
>
> Thanks for reporting this issue.
>
> I can reproduce this on a Centos 5 VM.
>
> This is interesting.  The firefox window has a WM_NORMAL_HINTS which
> specifies a maximum size of 32767x32767.
>
> Currently, the maximize control on the window frame is supposed to be
> disabled if a maximum size is specified at all, but it looks like that
> wasn't quite working correctly until recently.
>
> I've adjusted the logic a little bit so that the maximize control is not
> disabled if a maximum size is specified, but it's larger (in both
> dimensions) than the Windows virtual desktop size (as then maximization will
> not exceed the maximum size specified)
>
> I've built a snapshot with this change.  Perhaps you could try that and see
> if it improves things for you?
>
> ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/x86/XWin.20150804-git-862bf7a8412567ae.exe.bz2
> ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/x86_64/XWin.20150804-git-862bf7a8412567ae.exe.bz2
>
> --
> Jon TURNEY
> Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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