Re: [e-users] Customizing Behaviour of Desktop menus

2003-08-08 Thread BAM
enment/keybindings.cfg, so you have to do it manually. Look for DESKBINDINGS and switch around the __BUTTON, __MODIFIER_KEY, and __ACTION sections. -- BAM - "A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." -- Bertrand de Jouvenel

Re: [e-users] E-Clipboard

2003-08-14 Thread BAM
and paste is an X thing: http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards-spec/clipboards.txt There's no E-specific clipboard viewer. Just use klipper or gnome clipboard manager if you want one. -- BAM - "I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to serio

Re: [e-users] background

2003-08-14 Thread BAM
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 02:49, roland wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to change the E background picture with a shellscript or a > cron entry. > Is there a way to tell E to reload it? http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=5035359 or E-Slides. -- BAM - "Wha

Re: [e-users] Epplets

2003-08-14 Thread BAM
u're using a 0.16.6-pre release. -- BAM - "Being trampled to death by passengers while driving is not easy, and requires a great deal of practice." -- MenTaLguY --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET s

Re: [e-users] Epplet or not ?

2003-10-06 Thread BAM
themes, and you can also do a search on freshmeat. Many popular E themes have gkrellm ports. -- BAM - "If you couldn't find any weirdness, maybe we'll just have to make some!" -- Calvin --- This sf.net email is sponsor

Re: [e-users] Transperancy

2003-10-27 Thread BAM
my grabbing a snapshot of the screen and drawing on top of that (what KDE does). Of course, when the part of the screen under the Eterm changes, the effect is ruined. -- BAM - "I'm not crazy, but I think the voice in my head might be.&

Re: [e-users] Some themes just don't know when to quit!

2003-10-31 Thread BAM
#x27;s strange. Did you remove the expanded theme as well as the .etheme? Do your new themes have different names for these borders? I guess you might have something stuck in your cache. Try Maintenance->Purge all caches, then restart. -- BAM - "Who wouldn't be interested in e

Re: [e-users] Changing title of Eterm at runtime

2003-11-05 Thread BAM
script, where ^[ is control escape and ^G is control G: echo -n "^[]0;$1^G" -- BAM - "To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research." -- Steven Wright --- This SF.net email is spon

Re: [e-users] e16menuedit & e16menukeyedit compilation problems...

2003-11-17 Thread BAM
1/Xlib.h: No such file or directory > viewer.c:6:22: gdk/gdkx.h: No such file or directory These are the only errors that matter, btw. -- BAM - Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. --- This SF. Net email is sponsored

Re: [e-users] How to add extra mouse button actions?

2004-02-01 Thread BAM
check out the imwheel utility (http://jcatki.no-ip.org/imwheel/) to use the scroll wheel in old apps. It allows you to map scroll actions to any key combination on a per-app basis. -- BAM - "I hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend." -- Kurt Cobain --

Re: [e-users] User Poll: Desktop Enviroments

2004-02-08 Thread BAM
rious > desktop enviroments. I run E with a minimal gnome2 setup, just gconf and gnome-settings-daemon. Most of the apps I use are GTK/GNOME. Thanks to epplets and the E taskmenu, the only non-E thing I have on the desktop is idesk (which launches nautilus windows). -- BAM - "Just

Re: [e-users] User Poll: Desktop Enviroments

2004-02-11 Thread BAM
o date haven't arrived at a method for achieving this with the > cooperation of gnome/nautilus - that is, my four backgrounds *and* the > desktop icons etc maintained by nautilus. If your desktop icons don't change much, you could use something like idesk, and have it launch "/h

Re: [e-users] changing menu speed

2004-03-09 Thread BAM
d of menu appearance, but you can disable menu animation, control whether E moves menus to be onscreen, whether the pointer warps to submenus, etc. Other than that, try hovering the mouse over the menu name until it starts to appear, and then moving into it. (Spent a few minutes practicing my te

Re: [e-users] The menus are empty in certain themes. Why?

2004-03-16 Thread BAM
ues (like the background dialogue). > > Why is this happening? The theme uses fonts you don't have installed. Try downloading the Artwiz fonts: http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/fluxbox/artwiz-fonts.tar.bz2 or these, if you want Xft2 compatibility: http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/artwiz

Re: [e-users] how to pop up the Task List Menu with shutcut key?

2004-03-19 Thread BAM
know the menu name. I don't find a reference of > this menu in all cfg files. Does this menu have a name? "taskmenu" :) Tip: if you ever want to find out what a key or mouse button does, the place to look is "keybindings.cfg". The middle mouse button is "__BUTTON 2&qu

Re: [e-users] how to pop up the Task List Menu with shutcut key?

2004-03-20 Thread BAM
> BAM wrote: > > >On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 22:32, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > >>I also wish to pop up the Task List Menu (the one Alt+Middle on desktop > >>brings up), but I don'n know the menu name. I don't find a reference of > >>this

Re: [e-users] can this be done?

2004-11-18 Thread BAM
sly, then the window gets shaded again by > that command... so I have to create another solution (perhaps using > licq's "infofs"). Check "win_op WINDOWID shade ?" before unshading. -- BAM - "When you die, you lose a

Re: [e-users] e16.8 in CVS

2005-01-01 Thread BAM
"Enable" EndSection I have it right after the module section. -- BAM - "Verbing weirds language." -- Calvin. --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceFo

Re: [e-users] Hello and maybe a question...

2005-02-15 Thread BAM
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 20:03 +, Martin White wrote: > Try as i might though i just couldn't get used to living without a > file manager. This was dissapointing t me, but i guess the years of > KDE have rubbed off on me. You can run any KDE or GNOME application, including their file managers, in

Re: [e-users] (no subject)

2003-01-13 Thread BAM
also use something like idesk for desktop icons and move the nautilus Desktop window out of the way (and make it non-sticky). This lets you use root menus again. -- BAM - If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished. --- This SF.NE

Re: [e-users] window style remember problem

2003-01-28 Thread BAM
xt wterm you open will be borderless even if you leave the second one open. > I open another wterm and it HAS border.. how do I set this property for all wterms? You can open a whole bunch of wterms at once and set remember for all of them. Or you can write a eesh script that applies your settin

Re: [e-users] window style remember problem

2003-01-28 Thread BAM
tarts with the line: #include There are shortcuts for common actions so you don't need the huge blocks. Either of these two lines should do it all. Replace wterm with Eterm to match Eterms. USE_BORDER_FOR_CLIENT_WITH_NAME("*wterm*", "BORDERLESS") USE_BORDER_FOR_CLIENT_WIT

RE: [e-users] window style remember problem

2003-01-28 Thread BAM
gt; bordered, setting? Yes. Probably. No WM has a perfect remember system, which is why the GNOME folks ditched it for their new WM. Many apps now remember their own positions. What's really annoying is that E16 gives the app it's position including the window decorations, which makes ap

Re: [e-users] window style remember problem

2003-01-29 Thread BAM
does the > trick for you ;) Hey -- the Ximian people have gotten into enough fights about that already :). -- BAM - Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster

Re: [e-users] Keyboard-driven theme

2003-03-01 Thread BAM
he comments in E's default keybindings.cfg. $EROOT/config/keybindings.cfg. Or use e16keyedit. -- BAM - I live the way I type; fast, with a lot of mistacks. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek

Re: [e-users] Disappearing pagers

2003-03-02 Thread BAM
is a middle click on the border This might happen if your pager is using a border called PAGER and you switch to a theme with no board with that name. Try Alt+Right click on the pager to bring up the window menu and setting a new border style. -- BAM - O

Re: [e-users] eterm problem

2003-03-12 Thread BAM
d theme.cfg files. > Oh yeah, and if you happen to know how to edit the application menu I would be > greatly appreciative. 1. Manually edit the *.menu files in ~/.enlightenment (hard). 2. Use e16menuedit (easy). -- BAM - Ever stop to th

Re: [e-users] only root can start enlightenment

2003-06-24 Thread BAM
e wm they load, but this can cause race conditions and other problems. If all else fails, your distro may have a system-wide configuration for selecting a WM. Try running it or finding the file it uses (eg /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc). -- BAM - "Life is polynomial time." -- Lasz

Re: [e-users] only root can start enlightenment

2003-06-24 Thread BAM
amp; exec gnome-panel & exec /usr/local/enlightenment/bin/enlightenment > > Thanks Lazlo Sorry -- Lazlo Babai is a professor at the University of Chicago who was quoted by my random sig script. The "BAM" part is my initials: -- BAM

Re: [e-users] only root can start enlightenment

2003-06-25 Thread BAM
r you. Kill the > existing window manager, run enlightenment, then save settings on exit. E will not like you if you use another session manager. -- BAM - I live the way I type; fast, with a lot of mistacks. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: I

Re: [e-users] only root can start enlightenment

2003-06-25 Thread BAM
I was wrong in that E's Remember is a better way to get a panel and fm running (also the exec thing...). I have it this way because I don't always use the panel, so I comment it out. -- BAM - "Always remember to pillage BEFORE you burn." -- Anonymous ---

Re: [e-users] Creating a global hot-key combination.

2003-06-30 Thread BAM
gt; the ability to assign a hot-key combination that works whatever app has > the focus to, for example, load a new Eterm up. Either download e16keyedit or copy your global keybindings file into ~/.enlightenment/ and edit it. -- BAM - Q: What is the difference between Mechanical Engineers a