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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Why do all windows react differently to xdotool resize (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Yesterday I tried to layout a bunch of program windows via xdotools moveto and resize. In theory they should have been all the same size, but they came out all different, and none had the targeted size. They all had space around them. What is involved in this process? Are there invisible borders, or stuff like that?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe you are running Wayland and not X11?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope, I switched back to X11 after I found, that xdotool couldn't work with Wayland, and ydotool doesn't support window handling.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Autsch! I would never do that... X11 is such a broken mess, but then my window management needs seem to be very different from yours.

Applications do have a say in how big they get rendered (typically by giving a min/max/preferred size), which window managers may or may not resepct/adjust for after the window comes up. Maybe it is just that.