"Richard Levitte via RT" on wrote...
| Does anyone have a comment on this one? Would you say this is one of those
"It's Not the
| TWM way!"?
|
| > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sat Mar 04 23:38:47 2006]:
| >
| > Hello.
| >
| > I have a suggestion for a rather cosmetic enhancement in CTWM, my window
| > manager of choice. It would be nice if highlighted windows' title bars -
| > including the buttons - could have a completely different background and
| > foreground colors than normal windows. It doesn't seem to be possible at
| > the moment.
| >
| > After looking at the sources, it seems to me, this would not be a very
| > difficult change to make *if one knew what one was doing*. Alas, I'm not
| > much of programmer, especially when it comes to X and window managers. I
| > think changes would be needed first of all in the structures TwmWindow
| > in twm.h (add a new ColorPair) and ScreenInfo in screen.h (ditto) but
| > naturally also in the functions that draw the title and/the buttons +
| > the .ctwmrc-file parsing. I tried fiddling around the sources, but found
| > out that I don't understand the system well enough to get the result I
| > wanted.
| >
| > I understand that a change like this, whose only purpose is to make it
| > possible to make CTWM look more like Motif/CDE, may not have a high
| > priority, but thanks anyway. CTWM is very good in any case.
| >
It is definately not a window managers responsiblity to chnage window
contents.. That is asking for trouble!!
However if you have 'transparency features' that can be a window
managers responsibility. Eg fade window to semi-transparent unless
it is the current window!
I have seen some window managers do this.
Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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