Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?
on Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 08:33:31PM +, Dave Thorn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:34:32AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: It seems to me that, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I had a window manager that supported maximize-vertical (as opposed to maximizing in both directions). windowmaker does this too. Ctrl-(double-clicking) on the titlebar maximises vertically, shift-(double-clicking) maximises horizonally, ctrl-shift-(double-clicking) maximises both directions. Simply double-clicking shades the window. You can also bind this to a key. altspace toggles maximize vertical on my boxes. I'm utterly frustrated on any system that doesn't have this, naturally Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Bush/Cheney '04: Compassionate Colonialism signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?
On 08 Feb 2004, Philipp Weis wrote: On 08 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I had a window manager that supported maximize-vertical (as opposed to maximizing in both directions). Anyone using a window manager right now that does this? Preferably one that interacts well with gnome. Sawfish can maximize vertically, horizontally and in both directions. It was the default window manager with gnome 1 and will probably work well together with gnome 2. Icewm does this: Shift-Alt-F10 out of the box, or you could assign your own key combination. Anthony -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic Windows-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?
Johann Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:42:17 -0500: On Sunday February 8 at 11:34am Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I had a window manager that supported maximize-vertical (as opposed to maximizing in both directions). Anyone using a window manager right now that does this? Preferably one that interacts well with gnome. Enlightenment. Right click to maximize vertically, middle click to maximize horizontally. FVWM. Whatever bindings you set up. I don't use gnome, so no idea, although I did notice a few seconds ago that some worthless peice of crap in gnome changed my background - how are you meant to change font sizes in gtk apps without using that silly gnome-control-panel? -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ GNU/Happy 50th birthday RMS! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 06:55:39PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote: I don't use gnome, so no idea, although I did notice a few seconds ago that some worthless peice of crap in gnome changed my background - how are you meant to change font sizes in gtk apps without using that silly gnome-control-panel? You're not. Annoying, isn't it? Yet another reason to stay far far away from the God-King's creation. I'm sure there's an essay somewhere that says you don't need to change the font. Put what you want in your ~/.gtkrc and/or ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and forget about it. The gtk-theme-switch package can automate this for you. -- Marc Wilson | Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wages, but truth goes a-begging. -- Martin Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?
Anyone using a window manager right now that does this? Preferably one that interacts well with gnome. Btw, I'm using metacity right now, but I don't see any such option. Metacity does, but only with a keybinding. You need to set a keyboard shortcut for Maximize window vertically. Applications Desktop Pref. Keyboard Shortcuts -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson sa at whiz.se http://www.whiz.se -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?
On Sunday February 8 at 09:06pm Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:42:17PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: Enlightenment. Right click to maximize vertically, middle click to maximize horizontally. Have not used with Gnome, so I can't comment. Enlightenment v17 CVS will, as it supports EWMH. You can forget about E v16. Does your DR17 install co-exist nicely with DR16? I'm considering trying it out, but would like to ensure that my current setup doesn't get b0rked by DR17. On a slightly related topic: is there an unofficial Debian package for DR17, or are you just using the CVS and doing the standard source build/install? -- -johann koenig Today is Sweetmorn, the 36th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3170 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:42:17PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: Enlightenment. Right click to maximize vertically, middle click to maximize horizontally. Have not used with Gnome, so I can't comment. Enlightenment v17 CVS will, as it supports EWMH. You can forget about E v16. Enlightenment v16 works fine for me with Gnome, though I probably don't use all the features of Gnome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:49:13AM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: On Sunday February 8 at 09:06pm Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enlightenment v17 CVS will, as it supports EWMH. You can forget about E v16. Does your DR17 install co-exist nicely with DR16? Not mine... I stopped using Enlightenment years ago. I imagine it would if you built it yourself. The only window manager(s) I use are openbox and blackbox. -- Marc Wilson | Oh, I am a C programmer and I'm okay I muck with [EMAIL PROTECTED] | indices and structs all day And when it works, | I shout hoo-ray Oh, I am a C programmer and I'm okay signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?
Tim Connors wrote: Johann Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:42:17 -0500: On Sunday February 8 at 11:34am Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I had a window manager that supported maximize-vertical (as opposed to maximizing in both directions). Anyone using a window manager right now that does this? Preferably one that interacts well with gnome. Enlightenment. Right click to maximize vertically, middle click to maximize horizontally. FVWM. Whatever bindings you set up. yep, IIRC the default debian bindings are left click vertical, middle click both, right click horizontal (click on the maximize button on the right side of the title). it can also be set up to maximize to certain percentage (and you can set different key and/or mouse bindings) erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:38:26AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 06:55:39PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote: I don't use gnome, so no idea, although I did notice a few seconds ago that some worthless peice of crap in gnome changed my background - how are you meant to change font sizes in gtk apps without using that silly gnome-control-panel? You're not. Annoying, isn't it? Yet another reason to stay far far away from the God-King's creation. I'm sure there's an essay somewhere that says you don't need to change the font. Also unless its changed some of the gnome packages need the settings daemon to run in the background. Was really frustrating with evolution trying to set the font until I realized I needed to start the daemons. It was dumped out with the water at some point in favor of mutt. Put what you want in your ~/.gtkrc and/or ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and forget about it. The gtk-theme-switch package can automate this for you. -- Marc Wilson | Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wages, but truth goes a-begging. -- Martin Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] +++ This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System at the Tel-Aviv University CC. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
window managers with maximize-vertical?
It seems to me that, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I had a window manager that supported maximize-vertical (as opposed to maximizing in both directions). Anyone using a window manager right now that does this? Preferably one that interacts well with gnome. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?
On 08 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I had a window manager that supported maximize-vertical (as opposed to maximizing in both directions). Anyone using a window manager right now that does this? Preferably one that interacts well with gnome. Sawfish can maximize vertically, horizontally and in both directions. It was the default window manager with gnome 1 and will probably work well together with gnome 2. -- Philipp Weis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freiburg, Germany http://pweis.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:34:32AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: Anyone using a window manager right now that does this? Preferably one that interacts well with gnome. Openbox 3 does. !-- Window operations -- keyboard keybind key=Mod4-w keybind key=m action name=ToggleMaximizeFull/ /keybind keybind key=v action name=ToggleMaximizeVert/ /keybind keybind key=h action name=ToggleMaximizeHorz/ /keybind /keybind /keyboard or, if you like the mouse: !-- Mouse operations -- mouse context name=maximize mousebind button=Left action=press action name=Focus/ /mousebind mousebind button=Middle action=press action name=Focus/ /mousebind mousebind button=Right action=press action name=Focus/ /mousebind mousebind button=Left action=click action name=ToggleMaximizeFull/ /mousebind mousebind button=Middle action=click action name=ToggleMaximizeVert/ /mousebind mousebind button=Right action=click action name=ToggleMaximizeHorz/ /mousebind /context /mouse -- Marc Wilson | History repeats itself -- the first time as a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | tragi-comedy, the second time as bedroom farce. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?
On 2004-02-08, Monique Y. Herman penned: It seems to me that, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I had a window manager that supported maximize-vertical (as opposed to maximizing in both directions). Anyone using a window manager right now that does this? Preferably one that interacts well with gnome. Btw, I'm using metacity right now, but I don't see any such option. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?
On 2004-02-08, Philipp Weis penned: On 08 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I had a window manager that supported maximize-vertical (as opposed to maximizing in both directions). Anyone using a window manager right now that does this? Preferably one that interacts well with gnome. Sawfish can maximize vertically, horizontally and in both directions. It was the default window manager with gnome 1 and will probably work well together with gnome 2. Sure enough! I installed sawfish; middle-click on the maximize button seems to do the trick. There are probably other things I should care about in a window manager, but this is my killer feature. Thank you very much! -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:34:32AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: It seems to me that, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I had a window manager that supported maximize-vertical (as opposed to maximizing in both directions). windowmaker does this too. Ctrl-(double-clicking) on the titlebar maximises vertically, shift-(double-clicking) maximises horizonally, ctrl-shift-(double-clicking) maximises both directions. Simply double-clicking shades the window. Of course, this could all be configurable and different where you are. Cheers, -- dave thorn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 11:59:36 -0700 Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-02-08, Monique Y. Herman penned: It seems to me that, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I had a window manager that supported maximize-vertical (as opposed to maximizing in both directions). Anyone using a window manager right now that does this? Preferably one that interacts well with gnome. Btw, I'm using metacity right now, but I don't see any such option. Not sure about gnome ones but both kwin and xfwm4 have all 3 possibilities (vertical, horizontal and full). James -- James Tappin, O__ I forget the punishment for using [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- \/`Microsoft --- Something lingering http://www.tappin.me.uk/with data loss in it I fancy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?
On Sunday February 8 at 11:34am Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I had a window manager that supported maximize-vertical (as opposed to maximizing in both directions). Anyone using a window manager right now that does this? Preferably one that interacts well with gnome. Enlightenment. Right click to maximize vertically, middle click to maximize horizontally. Have not used with Gnome, so I can't comment. -- -johann koenig Today is Sweetmorn, the 36th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3170 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:42:17PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: Enlightenment. Right click to maximize vertically, middle click to maximize horizontally. Have not used with Gnome, so I can't comment. Enlightenment v17 CVS will, as it supports EWMH. You can forget about E v16. -- Marc Wilson | There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way [EMAIL PROTECTED] | is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope. -- | Oscar Wilde signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?
Dave Thorn wrote: On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:34:32AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: It seems to me that, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I had a window manager that supported maximize-vertical (as opposed to maximizing in both directions). windowmaker does this too. Ctrl-(double-clicking) on the titlebar maximises vertically, shift-(double-clicking) maximises horizonally, ctrl-shift-(double-clicking) maximises both directions. Simply double-clicking shades the window. Man, you're teh r0xx0r. I was following this thread and at the same time thinking It would be so neat WindowMaker had this feature... but I don't think so, pity me Thanks! :-) -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier [EMAIL PROTECTED]Jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] «UNIX is like Sex: If you don't know it, you don't miss it. But if you know it, you'll need it.» -- Anonymous. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
