I tried searching the archives for a couple of things I'd like to do. I wasn't able to find anything relevant, so I figured I'd ask politely. Maybe someone can give me an easy answer.
I'm a recent convert, having been an AfterStep user for something like 10 years. Unfortunately, AfterStep development has moved more towards complexity, and the later versions are just too unstable to use. That's a shame, because during those 10 years I'd tweaked my environment a lot. I decided to try Enlightenment again (0.16), and I haven't looked back. It's responsive, relatively easy to configure, and so far pretty stable. However, there are a few features of Afterstep that I came to depend on that I haven't figured out how to accomplish with Enlightenment. One of those features was the ability to force a window to always be at the back relative to all of the other windows. Essentially, the window was pinned to the background. That let me have several windows that displayed various system status in real time that would stay out of my way. I could even specify that as a general characteristic based on window title. I'm coping right now, but it would be nice to not have to manually push the windows to the back all of the time. Related to the above is background image and window background transparency. The status windows I have are rxvt windows with transparent backgrounds. Apparently that works by copying the appropriate section of the root window. This trick doesn't work too well if you have multiple desktops, which I've come to like a lot. The rxvt windows use the background of the main desktop instead of the currently displayed desktop. That's OK. I don't mind, and I just use the same background on all of the desktops. However,... If I want to change the background of all of the desktops I have to do each one of them individually. Is there any way to apply a Desktop Background change to all of the desktops simultaneously? Is there any way to run generic commands at startup? I can't just "save" windows because some of them are pushed from ssh logins to remote systems. And finally, is there a way to specify the location of the iconbox? I have other windows in fixed positions that conflict with the default position, but I can't figure out how to move it. john- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
