On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:03:27 +1000 David Seikel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:46:33 +0300 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Also, how does the remember thing work, exactly. It seems that if I > > set remember for one app (remember this window + remember position), > > 10 other, totally unrelated apps get remembered, and sometimes, not > > only the position is checked. And worse, the first few times the > > position is actually remembered, then afterwards, it's like it > > remembered a totally different position. > > I had similar problems with remember desktop, trying to get my auto > started apps to appear on certain desktops. In the end I just turned > off remember stuff and either manually moved the windows, or tried to > make sure I was in the proper desktop when those particular apps start. > Not so hard, as there is only two of them and one of them takes a long > time to start. the rememebr stuff is VERY MANUAL. you need to tell it HOE to match a rememebr state TO a window. ie name, class, title, role, etc. etc. - if it cant find a match ... it doesnt apply, or if the match is TOO general, oit may apply to more than 1 window. if u tell it nothing the match is VERY general! :) > Window remembering stuff was also broken in DR16, where I also gave up > on trying to use it. Even though I despise KDE as a bloated and slow > monster, at least they got this part working well, maybe the maintainer > of the remember code can see how they do it. kde doesnt use a wm to do it - it uses session managers that work completely outside of the xserver and programs rememebr their own positions and restore them themselves. > If I wasn't very busy with the next release of my own open source > project, I'd look at it myself. > > While on this subject, what is the locks menu in the windows menu all > about? telling programs to "bugger off" and not allow them to move/resize or do things to themesleves. eg - those web pages with javascritp that resize your browser to fullscreen size. tell e to disallow the browser to move ro resize itself. then your borwser stays where it is . u can do this for any annoying apsp that have a habit of doing this (xchat is another such annoyance that was actually my major spur to do this code). you can ALSO lock yourself out as a user so u can't move/resize/close a window accidentally without removing the locks first - liek adding a safety barrier in for yourself. imagine you have an important task happening in a window and you sometiems accidentally close the wrong window as u are nto always careful. u can temporarily lock the window (dont tell it to rememebr locks) and lokc close so you cannto go close the window without first removing the lock. the Lifespan lock actually disallows E to exit as long as any windwos are around with lifespan locsk - stopping u from doing a "oops i logged out on some improtant work being done" stuff. etc. :) many uses. :) > -- > > This was inserted to keep any yahoo inserted > stuff seperate from my real email. > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download > it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own > Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
