Evening all,
I don't suppose anyone knows of a way to control the way a window maximises in X (using fluxbox to be precise)? I'm trying to find a way to make sure no windows obscures gkrellm on my desktop when maximised, so I can keep an eye on my new mail indicator (amongst other things). Conversely, I don't really want gkrellm to obscure other windows either.
The man pages etc. didn't mention anything about this so I'm guessing it would involve hacking the X/fluxbox code. I thought I'd just check with you lot first, just in case theres a head slappingly simple solution ;-)
Cheers,
BenE
BenEBoy mail@psychoferret.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
X (using fluxbox to be precise)? I'm trying to find a way to make sure no windows obscures gkrellm on my desktop when maximised [...]
Unless you can tell gkrellm to set the "do not cover" or "panel" hints (hopefully Brett can remember the proper names for them, or you can look them up in the Extended Window Manager Hints), I'm not sure that this can be done. It couldn't the last time I used gkrellm, so I switched to using a hacked-over copy of clock from lwm's author to display needed data when the mouse hits the corner.
Again, that assumes that fluxbox supports EWMH, but it probably does. Most window managers do now. Even mine has a go.
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 21:22, BenEBoy wrote:
Evening all,
I don't suppose anyone knows of a way to control the way a window maximises in X (using fluxbox to be precise)? I'm trying to find a way to make sure no windows obscures gkrellm on my desktop when maximised, so I can keep an eye on my new mail indicator (amongst other things). Conversely, I don't really want gkrellm to obscure other windows either.
I've sorted this now. Cheers for semi-suggesting looking in the gkrellm man pages MJ. It mentioned using an argument which would allow it to go into the flubox 'slit', and a config option for fluxbox is 'don't maximise over the slit'. I had to play with a few more options but it's working now :-)
BenE
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