On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:03 -0500, Yaakov Nemoy wrote: > On Jan 30, 2008 10:46 AM, Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks for the heads up. I am not directly working with the Eeedora > > project. I am really most interested in getting the most functional low > > resolution desktop as possible. Xfce is fine, however I find that > > desktop environment a bit restrictive. Here is the environment I am > > building/using right now on my eeepc ( by the way this is > 2GB's ). I > > know I know, but I am more interested in functionality than space. > > > > 1) Devilspie to better customize size and position of windows. Overly > > large windows are still problematic and I am trying methods to fix this. > > I am thinking maybe scaling the window with a compositing manager might > > be the way to go. Oh and some kind of gui to configure devilspie, it is > > said that one doesn't exist yet. I am thinking angelcake would be a > > good name. > > Except that it doesn't do compositing yet, I recommend XMonad for your > WM (or any other tiling window manager). On such a small screen, it > should solve alot of difficulties you have in placing windows in a > reasonable space. There is no gui to configure it either, but you > have the same barrier both ways. At least this way you're not using > something as inelegant as devilspie. The Metacity in Rawhide does compositing now. That codebase with a few patches I am working on works quite nicely. I am not sure why you consider devilspie inelegant. It just hangs out and matches windows and places them if you tell it to. Very simple and straightforward. Jon -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
