On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 12:52, Nils O. SelÃsdal wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 17:21, Hans Kramer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > If you call gdk_window_maximize, your window will be neatly (I guess > > depending on the actual window manager) maximized taking into account > > the panels a user has running. > > Looking at the code I show that this is handled by the window manager. > > My question now is: is it possible to just obtain (query) only the > > dimension of the available desktop from the WM. Thus without actually > > having to maximize a window! (I would like to have two toplevel windows > > occupying the whole available desktop ;-) Thanks for you response Nils, > Maybe you want one of > gtk_window_unfullscreen (GtkWindow *window); > gtk_window_set_type_hint (GtkWindow *window, GdkWindowTypeHint hint); > with GdkWindowTypeHint beeing GDK_WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_DESKTOP I might want to look into gtk_window_set_type_hint... However, still don't see what it will do for me. > > or the > gint gdk_screen_width (void); > gint gdk_screen_height (void); These won't work because they give me the dimension of the root window. Still I have to find a way to subtract the panel dimension from it.... Hans. > > -- > Nils Olav SelÃsdal <NOS@xxxxxxx> > System Developer, UtelSystems a/s > w w w . u t e l s y s t e m s . c o m > > > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list