Hello, Sometimes I'd like to use a standard window manager for certain apps. Is it possible to run a barebones wm like twm in a workspace under ion? I'm not sure if that makes sense, but is anyone doing something similar? Viraj.
Viraj Alankar <valankar <at> ifxcorp.com> writes: > Sometimes I'd like to use a standard window manager for certain apps. Is it > possible to run a barebones wm like twm in a workspace under ion? I'm not sure > if that makes sense, but is anyone doing something similar? You can run xnest in a frame, and run the twm in that xnest. kai -- -- ~/.signature: No such file or directory
On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 19:33:40 -0400, Viraj Alankar <valankar <at> ifxcorp.com> wrote: > Sometimes I'd like to use a standard window manager for certain apps. Is it > possible to run a barebones wm like twm in a workspace under ion? I'm not sure > if that makes sense, but is anyone doing something similar? You could use Xnest(which would give a second X session within an Ion frame), and then run a window manager within that. Should work, though I havn't tried it. -- -- .----------=======-=-=====-=========----------=====-----------=-=-----=. / David Barclay Harris Aut agere, aut mori. \ \ Clan Barclay Either action, or death. / `---========------======-------------=-=-----=-===-=====-------=--=----'
I have used Ion since may and have never been as satisfied with a window manager before. There are a couple of things that annoy me, though, so I thought I should speak out about them. If one configures Ion to have frames around the, um, frames it gives them frames along the screen borders too. That is a waste of screen space and it makes the tabs at the top of the screen lack the neat infinite size button feature of clickable things at the borders of the screen. Talking about that, it would be neat if frames bordering the bottom of the screens have their tabs beneath them instead. It should be possible to resize the frames with the mouse not only on the tabs but also by dragging the vertical borders between frames. -- -- Björn Lindström <bkhl <at> anisakis.org> ICQ: 82945879 Repslagaregatan 5A -><- http://anisakis.org/~bkhl/ SE-753 33 Uppsala phone: +46(18)241390 cellular: +46(73)6171268
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 04:06:27AM +0200, Björn Lindström wrote: > I have used Ion since may and have never been as satisfied with a > window manager before. There are a couple of things that annoy > me, though, so I thought I should speak out about them. Same here. I started using Ion a couple weeks ago, and it has been great, with just a few issues. > If one configures Ion to have frames around the, um, frames it > gives them frames along the screen borders too. That is a waste > of screen space and it makes the tabs at the top of the screen > lack the neat infinite size button feature of clickable things at > the borders of the screen. Talking about that, it would be neat > if frames bordering the bottom of the screens have their tabs > beneath them instead. I definitely agree with the first idea. I was going to look at the code and see how hard this would be to do myself, but I haven't had time. I'm not so sure about the second idea; it sounds like it could be confusing. > It should be possible to resize the frames with the mouse not > only on the tabs but also by dragging the vertical borders > between frames. My main request would be to have more of the wm functions available from the mouse. Currently, I'm using gtk-menu from aewm to give myself a menu of things to launch when I middle-click on the(Continue reading)
On Mon, 06 Aug 2001 04:06:27 Björn Lindström wrote: > It should be possible to resize the frames with the mouse not > only on the tabs but also by dragging the vertical borders > between frames. It IS possible ... I have made this before removing all the borders (takes much less space). Simply add mdrag "Button1", "p_resize" (or with any other mouse button) to your ion bindings ! -- -- Sébastien -Yeiazel- Munch <moi <at> sebmunch.net> http://www.sebmunch.net
On Sunday August 05 2001 07:06 pm, Björn Lindström wrote: > If one configures Ion to have frames around the, um, frames it > gives them frames along the screen borders too. That is a waste > of screen space and it makes the tabs at the top of the screen > lack the neat infinite size button feature of clickable things at > the borders of the screen. But if you bind the frame to something, you get an infinite button as well. I bind the frame thusly: set_mod "" mdrag "Button1", "p_resize" mclick "Button1", "switch_ws_prev" mclick "Button3", "switch_ws_next" > It should be possible to resize the frames with the mouse not > only on the tabs but also by dragging the vertical borders > between frames. See above. Geoff
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 04:06:27AM +0200, Björn Lindström wrote: > the borders of the screen. Talking about that, it would be neat > if frames bordering the bottom of the screens have their tabs > beneath them instead. I tried putting the tabs at the bottom (all of them, though), but didn't like it. > It should be possible to resize the frames with the mouse not > only on the tabs but also by dragging the vertical borders > between frames. This action is bound to button 3 and not 1, by default. The rationale for this is to increase the grab area by allowing the same button to resize on the title bar to as well. Tab drag&drop is supposed to be used more often so I bound it to button 1. But one could move this action to button 2 as PWM does. -- -- Tuomo
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 07:33:40PM -0400, Viraj Alankar wrote: > Sometimes I'd like to use a standard window manager for certain apps. Is it > possible to run a barebones wm like twm in a workspace under ion? I'm not sure > if that makes sense, but is anyone doing something similar? As already mentioned, Xnest and other similar solutions are currently the only way. There have been quite a few requests for PWM workspaces, infact. I did first oppose such, but having decided to write a quite general window management library that both PWM and Ion could use (so there much less work in maintaining them both) and make it quite abstract so it might be possible to have such one day as a module without any additional bloat to Ion. But I'm not promising anything at the moment. First, I really need to get Ion to a state where it compiles again. -- -- Tuomo
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 09:52:34AM -0700, Geoffrey Simms wrote: > On Sunday August 05 2001 07:06 pm, Björn Lindström wrote: > > > If one configures Ion to have frames around the, um, frames it > > gives them frames along the screen borders too. That is a waste > > of screen space and it makes the tabs at the top of the screen > > lack the neat infinite size button feature of clickable things at > > the borders of the screen. > > But if you bind the frame to something, you get an infinite button as well. I > bind the frame thusly: I think the idea is to be able to easily switch between programs with tabs at the top of the screen. -- -- Michael Bruce bruce <at> jhereg.net
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