On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 17:19 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote: > On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 12:26 +0000, Richard wrote: > > The main panes are always maximised, its only the inbox and sub folders > > that have to be reset at power up > > Here's the workaround: > > Unmaximize your Evolution window, stretch the window wider, maximize it > again. If the unmaximized window width is sufficiently large, the left > pane divider should stay where you put it when you restart Evolution. > > Here's the root problem: > > Evolution remembers whether or not the main window is maximized and > restores that state on startup. Evolution also remembers the width of > the left pane and restores that state on startup. > > But there's a race. Maximizing a window is an asynchronous operation. > Evolution asks the WM to maximize the main window, and then some time > later it actually does. And unfortunately it's a bit tricky to know > when the window really is maximized. > > If the main window is going to be maximized on startup, that needs to > happen before we can restore the left pane width to its previous value. > Do it too early and the not-yet-maximized window may not be wide enough > to accommodate the desired pane width. In that case it will do the best > it can with the available window width and truncate the width value. > Then the window maximizes, the truncated left pane width stays fixed, > and it appears to the user that the pane width was not remembered. > > I've been over and over that logic and just can't seem to flush out all > the possible races with the window manager. Seems to work fine whenever > I tweak the logic and then test it under Metacity, but then it rears its > head again for someone some time later. > > Until I can pin it down or figure out a more foolproof approach, best > stick with the above workaround. > It has been along time ago, but there was a request to get window size. When I resized a window, I looped looking at the window size until it matched the requested size. I no longer remember the implementation details, but it turned out that back then the cpus were quite slow, so it could take a few seconds for the resize to actually take place. I assume that there are similar commands from Fedora now or perhaps that may be controlled by the window manager.
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