Re: [rox-devel] OroboROX

[Tony H. <h...@re...>]

In <200...@ev...>, Thomas Leonard wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 04:51:57PM +0200, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
> [...]
> > The thing is that the Panels IS avoided, but only that part which is
> > asked for (a couple of pixels). I don't think that rox can ask OroboROX
> > to "always avoid the couple of pixels, but _try_ to avoid the whole
> > panel). If you want the panel to always be visible there was a patch
> > available for rox recently, for this.
> 
> I've added an option to choose whether you want the whole panel avoided,
> or just a couple of pixels.

Is that by using struts or something different? Don't forget to take
Xinerama into account. This means you may have to confine the length of
your strut to one monitor, but you also have to not set a strut if the
panel's in the middle of the virtual desktop eg left edge of a monitor
with another monitor to its left. I thought it might be possible to get
around this by cunningly setting a perpendicular strut instead, but
metacity for one got quite confused by that so I decided to avoid struts
altogether in such situations. I did do all of this in the patch I think
I forgot to post so I ought to check it and post it as soon as I know
the full details of the option you've just described and/or it's
available in CVS.

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