On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 09:51:41PM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:24:49 -0700, Gary Kline
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> kline> This is just my opinion, but until CTWM can run both Gnome and
> kline> KDE apps easily, flawlessly, methinks that CTWM will have a
> kline> limited reach. Can I run, say, "enlightenment" or "afterstep"
> kline> and type kdict and have this KDE app work? Yes, I can ssh
> kline> onto my Ubuntu server and use kdict across my network, but it
> kline> would be nice to have the inter-operability.
>
> Oh, I'm all for making it interoperate nicely. I need help making
> that happen, though, as I'm not an X expert (although I'm learning).
>
You sure fooled me, Richard! FWIW, I did months of Xlib
hacking in '94-5, then moved up to Xaw/Xaw3d for my now-defunct
"muuz" project. [It's for FBSD only but I forgot howto update
the port tarball.]
Um, letsee: I just installed the scrot port and dropped in
two screenshots on the ctwmrc.html page; with thumbnail.
So anybody curious can see how workspaces actually look.
It's pretty simple; xterms in most workspaces for easy
command-line stuff.
So far, I use xwininfo for the geometry of apps like xload,
rclock, xcalendar, and others. Let's say that a user
wanted xpostit, xload, <some calander app>, and some GUI
clock at the top [or wherever]. To the X-gurus onlist:
what's the easiest way to have someone mouse things around--
and after finishing, say, 3rd-button-click and have the
app with geometry saved to a file? If there are any GUI
scripting tools that will fork off a screen, then let the
user mouse around, putting and resizing, I've never heard
of them.
I know that at least Gnome lets you "Save" a given layout,
but that's about it.
Anybody?
gary
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