On 01:58 17 Aug 2002, Dominik Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 12:02:45PM +0000, Saku Sammakko wrote: | > A humble suggestion for pager: | > [... app thumbnails in pager ...] | I'm afrai, but that feature cannot be written in X in a fashion | that would be actually usable. When a window is not currently | visible, its contents may not be anywhere in memory, so the pager | cannot find out what to draw in the mini window. And even if the | window is on screen, this would need ridiculous amounts of memory | and take so long to update that nobody would use it. I'm sorry to | say this, but X simply doesn't provide an interface for background | drawing.
I think E (or Evolution? I forget) has such a pager. You could probably snapshot things on desktop switches, while they're visible. It would mean the thumbnails weren't "live", but it would work pretty well. It would be rather expensive - E has never been put off by such things :-) Needless to say I prefer FVWM. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Forty years from now nursing homes will be filled with demented hackers, studying their blank laptop screens nicely placed on knitted quilts to keep their knees warm. - K. Mitchum -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
