Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome

2006-06-21 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 6/20/06, Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 19:03 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 6/20/06, edwardsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the response. How do I get to the window manager preferences? I have looked pretty carefully through the desktop

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome (your not going to believe this!)

2006-06-21 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hello, Le mardi 20 juin 2006 à 11:29 -0600, edwardsa a écrit : I have just found the metacity.schemas file and find that a new schema focus_new_windows has two possible values: smart applies the user's normal focus mode, and strict results in windows started from a terminal NOT being

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome (your not going to believe this!)

2006-06-21 Thread edwardsa
Thibaut Paumard wrote: Hello, Le mardi 20 juin 2006 à 11:29 -0600, edwardsa a écrit : I have just found the metacity.schemas file and find that a new schema focus_new_windows has two possible values: smart applies the user's normal focus mode, and strict results in windows started from

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome (your not going to believe this!)

2006-06-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
I have looked fairly carefully at the metacity.schemas file and I have not found a way to alter the window behavior to customize metacity. I'm now using KDE because gnome/metacity had diminished my productivty. I miss the simplicity of gnome's presentation and would use it again I

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome

2006-06-21 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* edwardsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-21 16:33]: [...] You have only two choices, and neither produce the prior behavior for new windows. smart apparently looks at the focus behavior, which only changes the interaction of the mouse with the window. That is to say, once the window is created,

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome

2006-06-20 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 14:11 -0600, edwardsa wrote: In the previous incarnation of gnome/X11 (sarge), when I click on the main window of an application, an associated window would be placed on top of all applications. In the testing distribution, when I do the same thing, a tile on the

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome

2006-06-20 Thread edwardsa
Thanks for the response. How do I get to the window manager preferences? I have looked pretty carefully through the desktop preferences. I'm using metacity as the window manager. Art Edwards Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 14:11 -0600, edwardsa wrote: In the previous

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome

2006-06-20 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 6/20/06, Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 14:11 -0600, edwardsa wrote: In the previous incarnation of gnome/X11 (sarge), when I click on the main window of an application, an associated window would be placed on top of all applications. In the testing

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome

2006-06-20 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 6/20/06, edwardsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the response. How do I get to the window manager preferences? I have looked pretty carefully through the desktop preferences. I'm using metacity as the window manager. Try Applications-System Tools-Configuration Editor on your Menu Bar,

Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome (your not going to believe this!)

2006-06-20 Thread edwardsa
I have just found the metacity.schemas file and find that a new schema focus_new_windows has two possible values: smart applies the user's normal focus mode, and strict results in windows started from a terminal NOT being given focus. Now, if I start a window from a terminal, why the hell

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome (your not going to believe this!)

2006-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 edwardsa wrote: I have just found the metacity.schemas file and find that a new schema focus_new_windows has two possible values: smart applies the user's normal focus mode, and strict results in windows started from a terminal NOT being

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome

2006-06-20 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 19:03 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 6/20/06, edwardsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the response. How do I get to the window manager preferences? I have looked pretty carefully through the desktop preferences. I'm using metacity as the window manager.

Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome

2006-06-19 Thread edwardsa
In the previous incarnation of gnome/X11 (sarge), when I click on the main window of an application, an associated window would be placed on top of all applications. In the testing distribution, when I do the same thing, a tile on the bottom toolbar flashes to let me know I should click it.