On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was playing around with the possibility of replacing the current > Sugar WM - Matchbox with Metacity (this will, as I understand, enable > stock desktop applications run better within Sugar). > Certain things do break if we just drop in Metacity in place of > Matchbox, but it looks like with some changes in the code (Sugar code, > I would try to avoid changing Metacity code), we might actually get > something useful. > Marco had started a page on this topic sometime back - > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/WindowManagement, and I have updated this > page with my findings.
Yay! > Setting the window to be fullscreen (via set_fullscreen())does not seem to > work, since it stops the frame from popping up, and also an icon to exit > fullscreen appears at the top right corner. One possible solution to this is > to make the activity window undecorated (we do not need > maximise/minimize/resize buttons), and making their height/width equal to the > dimensions of the screen. This would need to be done by each activity or the window manager, or can be done by the shell? What about a composition manager? Has metacity some capabilities in this regard? In the faster builds we have a matchbox with some simple composition management, but it has some issues. Thanks, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
