From: Jim L. <jc...@au...> - 2009-07-13 14:58:52
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Until recently I've been experimenting with ROX on a laptop running Xubuntu 9.04. However this morning I decided to start trying it on another machine running Ubuntu 9.04. I am launching it using 'rox -S' to get an equivalent of an icon bar, etc. Overall it seems fine apart from one thing that is puzzling me. Setting the rox 'icon bar' panel to 'bottom' actually causes it to appear some way above the bottom of the screen. This is useful at present as it leaves the lower Gnome panel visible, but there is a gap between the two. Also, an apparently related point. I've written some simple apps that launch applications. e.g. FireFox so I can have an icon on the 'icon bar' and launch FF with a click. This works, but the lower edge of the FF window that opens is set at the bottom of the ROX panel. But if I open it using the normal Gnome method it extends down below this. I assume rox is using a slightly incorrect value for the location of the bottom of the screen, or the height of the screen and then passing this on the the application it launches (?) If so, can I edit this easily? It would be useful at present to adjust the height so that the rox 'icon bar' sits just above the lower gnome panel. Slainte, Jim -- Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html |
From: Stephen W. <st...@ke...> - 2009-07-13 17:15:01
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Jim Lesurf <jc...@au...> wrote: > Until recently I've been experimenting with ROX on a laptop running Xubuntu > 9.04. However this morning I decided to start trying it on another machine > running Ubuntu 9.04. > > I am launching it using 'rox -S' to get an equivalent of an icon bar, etc. > Overall it seems fine apart from one thing that is puzzling me. Setting the > rox 'icon bar' panel to 'bottom' actually causes it to appear some way > above the bottom of the screen. This is useful at present as it leaves the > lower Gnome panel visible, but there is a gap between the two. You want the Panel is a 'dock' Panel stays on top options in the Compatibility section. That will put it overlapping with the Gnome panel, but I'm working on an option to move the ROX-Filer panel just above the Gnome panel. -- Stephen Watson http://www.kerofin.demon.co.uk/ If you read this on a mailing list, send any reply back to the list and not to me. Not even CC. Lots of planets have a north |
From: Jim L. <jc...@au...> - 2009-07-14 17:12:34
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In article <gem...@ke...>, Stephen Watson <st...@ke...> wrote: > Jim Lesurf <jc...@au...> wrote: > > > > I am launching it using 'rox -S' to get an equivalent of an icon bar, > > etc. Overall it seems fine apart from one thing that is puzzling me. > > Setting the rox 'icon bar' panel to 'bottom' actually causes it to > > appear some way above the bottom of the screen. This is useful at > > present as it leaves the lower Gnome panel visible, but there is a gap > > between the two. > > You want the > Panel is a 'dock' Yes! Thanks that did the trick. :-) > Panel stays on top Didn't see that, but the above worked. > options in the Compatibility section. That will put it overlapping with > the Gnome panel, but I'm working on an option to move the ROX-Filer > panel just above the Gnome panel. Thanks. It would be useful to be able to move them. I have noticed that the xfce4 panels can be moved around easily, but the gnome ones don't seem to do this. However at present I have moved both gnome panels to the 'top' when they are happy to sit, one higher than the other, so that both are visible. Having selected the 'dock' setting the ROX panel now appears at the bottom of the screen OK when I use 'rox -S'. I also now 'roll up' the gnome panel that shows minimised items to get it out of the way. This all allows me access to gnome for now whilst I setup ways to access the things I want via ROX. One extra puzzle relates to a backdrop. I've been using a png as a gnome backdrop [1]. This was previously happy to stay visible when I ran ROX. But after the above changes it vanished when I opened a fullscreen FireFox window. Fixed this by also telling ROX to use the same image as backdrop. Curious though that it used to stay visible, but now gnome's version vanishes. Thanks again. Slainte, Jim [1] The image is a scan of the front of an old 'Eagle' comic as the Dan Dare artwork is nice and colourful. :-) -- Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html |