HVMs auto-resizing, causing positioning issues.

[Joe Thielen]

I have a minor GUI usability issue.

I'm using a smaller monitor, and my CentOS 7 HVMs seem to always want to take up the entire height of the screen.  The problem is the HVM window title bar will show at the top cutting off a little at the bottom of the window.  When using text-mode/CLI, this means once I get to the bottom of the screen I can't see what I'm typing.

I've tried right-clicking on the title bar, going to More Actions, then Special Window Settings.  If I set Position to Force 0,-25, this seems to work when I do it manually.

When the HVM boots again it works... for the first bootloader screen.  However, after that, the HVM re-sizes itself, and I'm in the same boat again.  Now, when I go back to look at the settings, it still says Force 0,-25, and if I hit OK, it will resize.

The problem is it doesn't do this automatically upon resizing.

I could force position to 0,0 then remove the header and frame.  But then I can't figure out how to get the header back, in order to get to the "Special Windows Settings" menu section again... in case I want to make further changes.  If I right-click on the HVM in the taskbar there is a "More Actions" section, but no "Special Windows Settings".  I can only seem to find it when right-clicking the title bar.  But I've removed the title bar for this HVM now...!

Any ideas?

[Andrew David Wong]

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I think you're normally supposed to set the desired resolution from within the
HVM OS's internal settings. In this case, try to set the desired resolution
within CentOS.

I think it's to be expected that attempting to force window properties in
KDE's window settings wouldn't work, since CentOS doesn't "know" about dom0's
window manager.

A tip for moving unwieldy windows around: Since you're using KDE, you can
simply hold alt, then drag anywhere on the window. This should work even if
the title bar is completely offscreen.

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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[Joe Thielen]

Thank you Andrew.  I'm not sure that I know how to set the resolution for CentOS in non-GUI mode.  I will have to look at that.

Holding alt and draging does not work for the windows.  It does for windows with a header/frame, but not for the ones where I've removed the header/frame and/or forced to position 0,0.