[MPlayer-users] wrong movie window size under gnome/sawfish

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 04 June 2002, Georgi Hristov wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> hi,
> 
> since some few months ago mplayer somehow remebers the previous size of the
> movie window, and unless i change it always starts with one and the same
> size. this only happens in sawfish, when i switch to kde it's fine. this
> also only is problem in window mode - in fulscreen mode it is fine. it crops
> the image if the window is smaller than the movie, but it scales it if the
> window is bigger. [...]

I had exactly the same problem. Turning off window size and position saving
in sawfish options fixes the problem. There is probably some way to do this
for mplayer only, but I was too lazy to find out.

HTH

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