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KDE feedback popup?



When I asked about this at the KDE booth at the Atlanta Linux Showcase
last October, I was told that this feature wasn't in the KDE window
manager, but that I could switch to a different one (as opposed to
running Gnome/Enlightenment...)

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> 
> I've been experimenting with the KDE window manager, and there's  one
> thing  I  haven't been able to find anywhere.  Most of the wms have a
> little popup "geometry feedback" (or whatever it's called)  windowlet
> that appears while you resize a window, showing you the current size.
> It's real handy if, for example, you want an xterm that is  95x50  or
> some  other  specific  shape.  So far, I haven't found any such thing
> with KDE, and no clue that it's even possible.  Does anyone know?
> 
> One thing I've noticed is that the various wms all seem  to  call  it
> something  different,  and  hide it in completely different places in
> their config stuff.  And most of them have  it  off  by  default,  of
> course.   So it's possible that I just haven't guessed what KDE calls
> it, or where they might have hidden its on/off flag.  I've looked  up
> some  of  the  more likely keywords in the help search window, but no
> clues seem to pop out.
> 
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