At 21:25 02/24/2002 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Well, I tried Mozilla on Windows 98 SE. I'll tell you what it did. I have been using the Program Manager (Win 3.1) display for years. Mozilla crashed--I could not shut it down--and now I can only bring up Progman in full screen, not in partial screen. When I try to bring it up in partial screen, it just goes away. /snip/
If there is a Windows Guru out there who can tell me how to make the Progman work in partial screen mode again, I would be enormously grateful.
/snip/ Yes, I know this is the wrong forum, but if somebody else has the same problem, I found a guru locally, and he steered me in the right direction. This is the solution: In progman.ini there is a line that should look about as follows: Window=4 3 1149 714 1 This appears to be, in order, the x y coordinates from the top of the screen where the window starts and the width by height of the window in pixels, and an unknown variable. These were the numbers I found on another machine. The first 4 numbers were mangled to numbers in the thousands, and the display window was probably in Ethiopia or someplace. Certainly not on my monitor. Moral of this story: It sure helps to have a similar system working somewhere. This certainly applies to Linux also. Another moral: it sure helps NOT to have to fool with a registry. Since this is an old Windows program, it relies mostly on a .ini file. The Linux configuration system makes a lot more sense than registry. Except it would be nice if all the Linux config files had the same .tag and were in the same directory! BTW, Windows XP has a new version of Progman, and it may NOT have a .ini file. Since I don't run XP, I can't conveniently check it out for you. --doug