[Users] adjusting size of Claws Mail window

[John Culleton]

On Fri, 9 Oct 2015 17:03:45 +0200
Slavko <linux at slavino.sk> wrote:

> Ahoj,
> 
> Dňa Fri, 9 Oct 2015 10:21:25 -0400 John Culleton
> <John at wexfordpress.com> napísal:
> 
> > I use Claws Mail on XFCE on Slackware Linux.
> > Recently the Claws Mail window reaches out to
> > the edges of the firtual screen. I cannot
> > move or
> 
> Yes, this sometime happens :-)
> 
> > reduce the CM window. All I can do is shut it
> > down. 
> 
> Yes, it is solution, but IMO bad. You have more
> options to solve it:
> 
> a) under XFCE is shortcut to drag window by any
> place with default (AFAIK - i don't use the
> default one) Left Alt + Left Mouse b) you can
> use the wmctrl with the -e option to define new
> window position and size (get windows list by
> the -l option) c) you can close CM and tweak
> the values under ~/.claws-mail/clawsrc
> 
> mainwin_x=1276
> mainwin_y=0
> mainwin_width=1831
> mainwin_height=1007
> 
> d) etc ;-)
> 
> > I use xrandr to render the virtual screen
> > size. I tried several different settings but
> > all work the same as far as CM occupying the
> > full screen. There are no window manipulation
> > icons in the upper right corner of the CM
> > window. 
> 
> F11?
> 
> Be sure to properly close CM at end of session,
> i have issues with this and the CM is killed
> and then no new values are written into rc file.
> 
> regards
> 

I changed one factor in clawsrc thus:
mainwin_fullscreen=0
and that solved the problem.

I have no ideas how this got changed to 1. 


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