> A question - Does anyone know a way to click INSIDE an
> application and raise it? I am using a key binding
I use "Click to Focus" Focus Model and I can click within an window and
it will raise it (bring it in front of other windows).
> with BBKeys. But that is probably the only feature I
> miss in Windows and other, bloated Window Managers.
> Auto-raise doesn't work for me. I like to know I am
So you have AutoRaise with Sloppy Focus and it doesn't work? You should
report more details so this can be fixed for you.
> raising a window by clicking.
Does it raise when you use "Click to Focus"?
If not, make sure you caps lock, scroll lock and num lock keys are off.
> I'd like to see the black-box menu file could be more
> configurable by using a real folder structure
> somewhere on the hard drive, like in Windows.
> Something like a #include in the menu file, then the
> folder that was #include-ded would be ls-ed and then
> used in the menu. One could drop actual programs,
> symlinks, documents, whatever, into a logical layout
> and then *boom* have a menu. One could even set up a
You'd have a menu of what?
How would you know if the file should be ran? (Just because it is
executable doesn't mean that it can be ran with no command-line arguments;
and some progarms need a terminal for any input or to see results.)
Or how would it know what to do with other files?
How does it know how to open certain documents? For example:
$ file column-template.php3
column-template.php3: exported SGML document text
$ file -i column-template.php3
column-template.php3: text/html
Should it open an SGML file with a text editor? With a php interpreter?
With a SGML browser? Or should it open it with an HTML/web browser? Or an
HTML editor? ...
Another example: "test.ogg". Currently, my file(1) can't determine the
file type. So is it an Ogg Vorbis audio file? An Ogg Squish audio file? An
Ogg Tarkin video file? Or some other file formatted using Ogg layout?
(And then how do you choose which of many players to play the file?)
Figuring out all this is a job for an outside application. And it will
take a lot of configuration.
That said, I do see that as an useful feature. And it seems like I have
used some file browsers that have that functionality (but they do need a
lot of configuration).
> At the very least, I would like to see a menu builder
> that simply scans a chosen folder and builds the menu
> file that way.
It can already do that with style files (using [stylesdir] and/or
[stylesmenu]).
Jeremy C. Reed
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