Re: Sawmill/Gnome raising windows
How can I configure Sawmill/Gnome so that a window will rise to the top if I click on the title bar? I prefer a sloppy focus, one where I can move the mouse over a window and have it in focus. However, I don't necessarily want that window to rise to the top/foreground. I do want it to come to the top/foreground if I click on the title bar or perform some other action. Use Blackbox. It works just like that, by default, which I find incredibly nice. I haven't played with GNOME or sawmill, and it's possible there is no way to do what you want--being on top may be inextricably linked with being in focus, as it is in windows. Really don't know. But Blackbox works the way you described with the added advantage of being a very low drain on system resources and looking quite sleek. Here's my stupid question for the day (I'm allotted one per day, aren't I?!:-). Hey, if you get one stupid question per day, I get one stupid answer per day. = Fish of Borg Visit me on the web! http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Frontier/4874/stccg.html ///Archaeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what appears to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is currently being carbon dated in Bonn. If genuine it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read To my Darling Candy. All Characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.///Red Dwarf __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: Sawmill/Gnome raising windows
Actually GNOME isn't a window manager... so you should look toward the window manager that runs under GNOME typically enlightenment or KDE... though any window manager that supports GNOME's hints should work with GNOME. If your windows manager is enlightenment.. then use enlightenments configuration tool... if you are using the Current version of enlightenment, just right click on the desktop and you will be provided with a menu of options inwhich there is a focus preferences... as for other window managers I wouldn't know how to get the window to raise on click. TaoX -- www.muhri.net/TaoX [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: '61511769' AOL IM: 'TaoX 0x1' - Original Message - From: Fish Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 12:44 AM Subject: Re: Sawmill/Gnome raising windows How can I configure Sawmill/Gnome so that a window will rise to the top if I click on the title bar? I prefer a sloppy focus, one where I can move the mouse over a window and have it in focus. However, I don't necessarily want that window to rise to the top/foreground. I do want it to come to the top/foreground if I click on the title bar or perform some other action. Use Blackbox. It works just like that, by default, which I find incredibly nice. I haven't played with GNOME or sawmill, and it's possible there is no way to do what you want--being on top may be inextricably linked with being in focus, as it is in windows. Really don't know. But Blackbox works the way you described with the added advantage of being a very low drain on system resources and looking quite sleek. Here's my stupid question for the day (I'm allotted one per day, aren't I?!:-). Hey, if you get one stupid question per day, I get one stupid answer per day. = Fish of Borg Visit me on the web! http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Frontier/4874/stccg.html ///Archaeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what appears to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is currently being carbon dated in Bonn. If genuine it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read To my Darling Candy. All Characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.///Red Dwarf __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Sawmill/Gnome raising windows
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 09:44:43PM -0800, Fish Smith wrote How can I configure Sawmill/Gnome so that a window will rise to the top if I click on the title bar? I prefer a sloppy focus, one where I can move the mouse over a window and have it in focus. However, I don't necessarily want that window to rise to the top/foreground. I do want it to come to the top/foreground if I click on the title bar or perform some other action. Use Blackbox. It works just like that, by default, which I find incredibly nice. I haven't played with GNOME or sawmill, and it's possible there is no way to do what you want--being on top may be inextricably linked with being in focus, as it is in windows. I *have* worked with GNOME and sawmill, and as a result have an answer to the question he asked. I have a Windows keyboard, and Win+RightButton over any part of the window raises it as does Ctrl+Win+UpArrow, and right-clicking on the title bar alternately raises and lowers the window. The Win key is bound to Meta, so you should be able to do the same once you find your Meta key. You can customize these bindings interactively by selecting Customize from Sawmill's pop-up menu (middle button in the root window, if you haven't discovered it already) and looking under Bindings. Really don't know. But Blackbox works the way you described with the added advantage of being a very low drain on system resources and looking quite sleek. Oh, a DSW! Top says: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 11037 root 0 0 10300 9776 1156 S 0 0.0 15.4 0:39 XF86_SVGA 437 root 0 0 16308 9728 992 S 0 0.1 15.3 31:52 XF86_SVGA snip 11058 root 0 0 1288 1288 996 S 0 0.0 2.0 0:04 blackbox 499 john 0 0 1064 940 200 S 0 0.0 1.4 0:12 sawmill snip Sawmill is managing 16 windows in two workspaces; blackbox is managing one. There's not a lot in it, but I'll stick to sawmill. Here's my stupid question for the day (I'm allotted one per day, aren't I?!:-). Hey, if you get one stupid question per day, I get one stupid answer per day. Regards, John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark
Re: Sawmill/Gnome raising windows
From: Fish Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...--being on top may be inextricably linked with being in focus, as it is in windows. That is not true. (A utility called TweakUI can change that setting in MS Windows.) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )
Sawmill/Gnome raising windows
Here's my stupid question for the day (I'm allotted one per day, aren't I?!:-). How can I configure Sawmill/Gnome so that a window will rise to the top if I click on the title bar? I prefer a sloppy focus, one where I can move the mouse over a window and have it in focus. However, I don't necessarily want that window to rise to the top/foreground. I do want it to come to the top/foreground if I click on the title bar or perform some other action. I've played and played in all of those foolish GUI configuration menus of Gnome and Sawmill, but the only way I can get something close to what I want is to click on the Gnome tasklist on the specific task -- that'll make it rise to the top/foreground, but isn't exactly what I want. (As an aside, I'm really impressed by Sawmill's light use of system resources; I never realized I had so much RAM.:-) -- Regards, | Software isn't software without the source code. .| Randy| http://www.fsf.org - Support *free* software.
Re: Sawmill/Gnome raising windows
Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my stupid question for the day (I'm allotted one per day, aren't I?!:-). How can I configure Sawmill/Gnome so that a window will rise to the top if I click on the title bar? By default, the window will rise to the top if you click the titlebar with the right mouse-button. There is a configuration page in the sawmill configurator to change the default actions - I have set button one to allow me to move the window around, but cannot also get it to raise the window. -- Phillip Deackes Using Debian Linux
