On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 14:44, Luke Meyer wrote: > The problem is that if the user clicks the minimize icon (by accident or > otherwise), the window goes away and cannot be retrieved. I've actually You can remove the minimize, maximize, and/or close buttons by editing the Metacity configuration in GConf. key /apps/metacity/general/button_layout > tried this on Fedora Core 1 and there you can use Alt-Tab to retrieve > your window, but not with RHEL 3 Desktop. No key combinations seem to > work except Ctrl-Alt-Backspace :-) How do I activate Alt-Tab -- and > also, how do I configure metacity to show a background image (which > would tell them to use Alt-Tab)? Configuration seems to work only Metacity doesn't do background images. Metacity is a window manager, not a desktop manager. ;-) You can use a tool like xsetroot (in your xinitrc/xclients script) to set a static background image. > with gnome. > > I've googled around quite a bit looking for this, but no one is doing > quite the same thing with metacity as far as I can tell. Any advice > would be appreciated. In all honesty, Metacity may not be the best WM for your needs. It handles *only* the management of windows, and it is intended to be used as part of a complete desktop environment. You might be able to find a different WM that is specialized for your type of needs. > > RHEL 3 Desktop runs with gnome-desktop-2.2.2-1 and metacity-2.4.55-6. > > -Luke > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list -- Sean Middleditch <elanthis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> AwesomePlay Productions, Inc. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
