Hey all. I've just set up a box with RH9 and so far I'm pretty happy with
it. I'd tried RH8.0 and found it to be a complete disaster. I'm quite
happy that 9 really seems to be a .1 in sheep's clothing. :-)
There's a couple of things I was able to accomplish with Sawfish under 7.3
that I haven't yet found a way to do in Metacity that I'm hoping some
folks here can point me to. First is I've got a series of keyboard
shortcuts (that aren't all that short...) that let me type phrases with a
single compound keypress. I accomplished that with the following snippet
from sawfish:
(defun send-string-to-window (w string)
(interactive "%W\nsEnter string:")
(let loop ((i 0))
(unless (= i (length string))
(synthesize-event (lookup-event (substring string i (1+ i))) w)
(loop (1+ i)))))
(bind-keys global-keymap "M-C-U" '(send-string-to-window (input-focus) "blalor"))
Is there any way I can accomplish the same thing with Metacity?
Second, I much prefer viewports to workspaces. Does Metacity/Gnome2
support this feature?
Lastly, is there a way to bind Alt-Mouse2 to raise/lower a window? The
config panel didn't seem to allow that, either.
Ok, I lied, there's one more thing (for now): it seems that there's some
funkiness with gnome-terminal. From my RH9 desktop I'm ssh'ing into a
remote 7.3 box and from there into another 7.3 box (a laptop). When I use
less or more on a file, the display is all screwed up; ^L doesn't work to
redraw the screen when TERM is xterm (the default) or vt100. On the first
machine I ssh into, less and more work fine. I've never had this problem
before. Does it ring a bell with anyone?
Thanks,
B
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