On 19-Feb-2002 M.G. Houtman wrote: >> There are ways as others have told you. I hope to add the ability to drag >> items around in the slit. This will let you adjust them at runtime. >> Window Maker also stores information about every app it controls. At this >> time I am not willing to add this type of database storage to blackbox. > > Good thing, shaleh, because I don't wanna wait 5 seconds for my dockapps to > load .. >
but this means you will spend at least 5 seconds moving things in the slit by hand once X loads. You lose the time either way. My laptop has had X running for some 40 days now, so 5 seconds is nothing. Window Maker keeps a little 'database' of window information and actually launches the dock app for you next time. This is how it puts them in the right place. I am not to keen on adding that type of code to blackbox. In the end it is just approximation and you never get it right. 'which rxvt should i put in the top corner?'. You end up with all of these heuristics based on title, X class, binary name, etc. not pretty.
