From: Christophe B. <to...@to...> - 2003-04-20 19:22:18
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Le dim 20/04/2003 à 19:52, Alain Schlesser a écrit : > May I ask you some details about your waimea installation? Hmmm you can ask, but I cannot answer... I have tested waimea once or twice, but I cannot get out of Icewm, too much configuration to make again. The only advantages I've seen are speed, and transparency... but it's not enough to make me switch to it and take time to learn configuration. But for the small times I've used it, I haven't noticed any problems like yours. -- Tof > > On my machine, waimea's screen update seems to be much faster than with _all_ > other wms. There seems to be some kind of double-buffering happening here. > Did you also make this experience? > > Unfortunately, on my machine waimea seems to have some serious bugs which make > it incompatible with some apps. AbiWord for example seems to hang at startup > with my waimea installation, but it runs fine with all other wms I have > tried. Have you ever had any such problems? > > Alain > > On Saturday 19 April 2003 22:34, Christophe Badoit wrote: > > You have a screenshot homemade here: > > http://www.tof2k.com/screenshots/waimea-rox.jpg > > > > You can see the ticker on the middle-right (window list). > > > > note that this transparency is 'cheating', the same way as terminals do > > -> it will render only the background (root window). > > > > I've seen a project named 'transluXent' on Freshmeat, adding an openGL > > transparency mode to X (like directfb.org screenshots. > > > > Note that with Xfree4.3 XCursors, the whole desktop becomes beautiful :) > > > > > > -- > > Tof > > > > Le jeu 17/04/2003 à 16:16, Christopher Shaffer a écrit : > > > --- T o F <to...@to...> wrote: > > > > I don't know if an app can hook the alt-tab... > > > > Maybe it's the same as the cliks on the root window ? > > > > > > > > For exemple we could tell icewm to ignore the "alt-tab" key, and listen > > > > for it. > > > > > > Well, you've got a few options in IceWM: > > > > > > 1.) Disable the IceWM window switcher in ~/.icewm/preferences > > > "QuickSwitch=0 # 0/1" > > > > > > 2.) Or map it to another key > > > "KeySysSwitchNext="Alt+Tab" " > > > "KeySysSwitchLast="Alt+Shift+Tab" " > > > > > > I guess it all depends on if you can hook Alt+Tab in another app... I > > > suppose that app would have to be running in the background at all times, > > > and only come to life when Alt+Tab is pressed... Looks like I've got some > > > investigation to do... > > > > > > > Fore eye candy lovers, waimea has a nice transparent alt-tab ticker :) > > > > > > Know of any screenshots of the transparent ticker? Didn't see any on > > > their website... > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo > > > http://search.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > > _______________________________________________ > > > rox-devel mailing list > > > rox...@li... > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rox-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > _______________________________________________ > > rox-devel mailing list > > rox...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rox-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > rox-devel mailing list > rox...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rox-devel > |