Re: [rox-users] desktop icons

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:11:09PM +0100, Andre Eibel wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:53:16 +0000
> Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> wrote:
> 
> > The two usual reasons for pinboard problems are:
> > 
> > - Your window manager doesn't work with them. You need to use the -o flag.
> > 
> > - You didn't drag any files onto the pinboard and, hence, it's empty ;-)
> >   I'm going to put Home on the pinboard automatically in future to stop
> >   people getting stuck on this one!
> > 
> > So, try:
> > 	$ rox -n -o -p Default
> > and then drag some files onto it...
> > 
> No go with amiwm

OK, after a bit of testing:

- Without the -o flag, icons are displayed but:
  - They have titlebars, etc.
  - Drags onto the background don't work because it isn't the real root
    window. If you drag the bar at the top down to reveal the real
    background then you can drag to that (but the icons appear in the
    dragged-down bit!).
  This is exactly the same behaviour as you get with gmc, so I suspect the
  problem is with the window manager...

- With -o the icons are displayed on the real background, but clicking on
  the workbench titlebar makes the redraw go wrong for some reason!

So, I think the solution is to get amiwm to:

- Proxy DnD events on the root window so that you can drag to it.
- Provide a way to remove the window borders from icons (maybe it does
  this already?).


HTH,

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