Re: Gnome, gmc comments

[gandalf pobox com]

On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Brady Hegberg wrote:

> Strangely I didn't see any replies to your message so I'll give you some 
> comments.
well I posted late last night, so I am not suprised :)

> Window resizing is generally either the window manager's responsibility or 
> the app's.  In Enlightenment for instance I can right click on the title 
> bar and select "Remember | Window Position" and "Remember | Window Size" (I 
> don't have it in front of me but it's something like that).  I'm not sure 
> if Windowmaker has a similar capability - you might check the mailing list 
> archives if they're up.

hmm, ok I assumed it was always the apps responsibility.  window maker
does not seems to have an option to do this, at least not that I can find.

> >an option to have textonly/piconly/both for buttons on the toolbar
> 
> There is a setting in the gnome configuration for choosing toolbar settings 
> Text Only/Graphic Only/Text and Graphic.  Also some programs allow you to 
> set this in the preferences.  If you have a favorite program that doesn't 
> do it I would contact the author and ask about it.
The problem with this is it is system wide.  In most applications I want
both pics and text, it is only in a few that I want just one or the other.
I'm not sure how practical it would be to go an add the functionality to
overide the system wide default on just those apps, but thats what I would
like to do :)

> >gnome-pager
> >it would be cool if the gnome-pager had:
> >an option to show tasks for all items, not just current window
> AFAIK the pager has a setting that does this.  Click on the "?" to bring up 
> the settings - the setting is something like "Show tasks for all desktops".
ok I feel dumb, you're right, I just missed it.  

> >an option to have the pager on other side of the task list
I can duplicate this (and even seperate the task list and pager) by
running two pagers, each one with the other thing disbled.  how safe si
this? (it hasn't crashed yet :) )


> >gnome session
> >it starts my windowmanager (window maker) on startup, but it doesn't kill
> >it when I log out of gnome, should it?
> >also, with gnome-session + window maker, the windows that appear at
> >startup are all in workspace 1, is this a gnome-windowmaker interaction
> >problem, or is something missconfigured on my system?

> Hmmm...I think it should die at logout.  You might try removing the 
> windowmaker command from the .rc file that starts gnome-session if it's 
> there.  Depending on what version you're on you can either use the Gnome 
> Configuration screen to choose a window manager or you can go into gnome 
> without a window manager and run the window manager - if you run it once 
> Gnome-Session should run it and shut it down automatically each time after 
> that.
actually it is started by gnome-session, which is why I expected
gnome-session to kill it to0.  One thing though, is that I am not running
anything from .xinitrx.   I am running gnome-session from a tssh window,
because I am exporting it all to my NT machine running xwin32.

-chris

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