Hi,

On 20/09/02 04:41, Gregg Young wrote:

On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 20:57:40 +0200 Alfredo Fernández Díaz wrote:

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For some reason the
system won't let you Cascade or Tile some windows, such as the Desktop
itself, or the DHCP monitor from the Window list, and I just did it with
lSwitcher. However, results do not always look 'happy' -- have a look at
the screenshots.

The screenshots are irrelevant to cascade and tile. These only change the
size and position of the program relative to the desktop. Many programs do
not allow this (not my problem).

If you wish to convince me there is a problem you need to show me a case
where what happened is different than using cascade or tile from the
window list.

That mean a full screen screen shot before the tile or cascade and a full
screen screen shot post. You then need to start from the exact same
position and size and repeat this with the windows list. If they are the
same it is performing as designed.

OK, let's see if I can word this better...

+DCHP Monitor (to pick a program present on all systems):
-Has a non-resizable window.
-From the Window list you can bring up a context menu with Cascade and Tile in it. Selecting "Tile" seems to do nothing, and "Cascade" only moves the window to the screen upper left corner.
-From the lSwitcher PM popup, targeting DHCP Monitor and pressing T for Tile or A for Cascade *will* move the DHCP Monitor window around *and* resize it as in the screenshots I sent last time.

If that's not "different" enough, to get the DHCP monitor window back to normal afterwards you need to close it and open its program object again.

+Desktop:
-This window is full-screen, not resizable or movable, and has no visible title bar.
-The only actions allowed from its Window list context menu are "Switch to" and Help, i.e. no "Cascade" and no "Tile" (What would "change size and position relative to Desktop" mean for the Desktop itself anyway?)
-From the lSwitcher PM popup, targeting the Desktop and pressing T or A for Tile or Cascade *will* give the Desktop window a title bar with no controls, and make it smaller than the screen, as in the other screenshot I sent.
-Once the Desktop is like this, you need to restart it or reboot to get back to normal.

...

Help says "'Reduce Desktop workarea' /will/ fail " [with XCenter], and
now lSwitcher actually prevents you from checking it with 'auto-resize'.
I thought this would be because of the new XWP, but there must be
some other reason -- I just checked a fresh AOS5055 (so newest XWP)
with Andrei's last lSwitcher and it can reduce the Desktop workarea
cooperatively with XCenter (see lsw_old), so no need to prevent users
from checking this. I would consider this a regression.

As for a real RFE, PM popup icons have a context menu that you can bring
up by clicking on them with MB2. How about making the PM popup react
to the same PM message coming from the keyboard? (Originally mapped to
Shift-F10, can also be triggered on Windows keys with Styler).

The change is based on the documentation and I don't know how safe or
consistent this is. Thanks

Do you mean somebody else (Lewis?) wrote "this may fail" ("will fail" now) in the help, and you prevented the option from being selectable because it will fail, or...?