On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 04:44, Nick Soffe wrote: > Hi, > I would like to restrict the maximum width of the top level window in an > application I've written for gtk2.x. I don't want to prevent the user from > resizing altogether. The window contains various resizable widgets > including a drawingarea on which I've set the minimum size with a > gtk_widget_set_size_request. Sorry if this is well known but after > searching the docs I'm still unsure of the correct way to achieve this > under gtk2.x. Try something like: GdkGeometry geometry; geometry.max_width = my_maximum_width; geometry.max_height = G_MAX_SHORT; gtk_window_set_geometry_hints (GTK_WINDOW (my_window), NULL, &geometry, GDK_HINT_MAX_SIZE); -- Shaun