Hi,
few more things I cannot find in the manual,
1. in the old pwm, you could set number of workspaces to use at start in a
config file. Currently ion3 patched starts in pwm mode with 1 workspace
accessible under META.."1" More workspaces are created manually. The wish is
to always have 10.
2. Now I understood, you could name some of the workspaces, e.g.
defwinprop{
class = "XTerm",
instance = "sysmon",
target = "terminals",
}
and by invocation of "XTerm -name terminals"
the xterm should be started in a named workspace terminals.
After renaming WS2
mod_query.query_renameframe(_)
to "terminals" and invoking the aforementioned command from WS1, the new
frame stays on WS1 instead of being created in WS2 = terminals. ?
3. According to Tuomo, there is no "sticky" window option anymore.
I looked for something like WFrame.move_to_WS(x) in order to move the
currently selected Frame (or window) to a workspace X, by default
accessible by keypress META.."X", where X is a number.
Any ideas how this could be done?
And something for open discussion:
ion3 grew into a huge WS offering through lua a lot of options on
workspaces, frames, splitting, scripting, etc.
As an ordinary user, I find it really difficult to configure it.
The old plain pwm .cfg files were less time consuming to set-up, and very
understandable. I must also say, that I have no previous lua experience. The
need to reconfigure arises from the unlucky choice of several default
keybindings, already used in many programs (firefox, emacs, mc).
I know META could be re-binded to ModX in X, but the first impression from
the WM is VERY important for new users.
My subjective suggestion would be to significantly simplify the basic
version of pwm3 configuration with just a few, unified keybindings for such
users. Advanced users could use for example ion3.
Does anybody know what is the size of the userbase?
Thank you once again for your efforts, making life easier on desktop is much
appreciated.
Best regards,
mosi
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2009/5/28 mosi <amosat+...@gmail.com <amosat%2b...@gmail.com>>
> Hi,
> it works!
> Now I feel at home again ;-)
> And as a bonus, the lua query in the new ion3.
> I suppose one can do marvelous things with it, but for the lack of time, I
> always look rather quickly over the features list and cannot relate the
> function descriptions to the actions on the desktop.
>
> Thank you very much for the quick help and hints.
> Best regards,
> mosi
>
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> 2009/5/28 Ole Jørgen Brønner <olejorg...@yahoo.no>
>
> Another question:
>>>> Alt+F11 will put a window into a fullscreen mode. If the window was on
>>>> Desktop 1 before, now it is on Desktop 0. Is this the default?
>>>>
>>> Well, META+Return is the standard binding for fullscreen, and this should
>>> place the window back where it came from.
>>>
>>
>> ie. when the window is in fullscreen it will be placed on a new workspace.
>> When you switch back it should be moved to its origianl position.
>>
>> --
>> Ole Jørgen Brønner
>>
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