F9 for Eeepc
Douglas McClendon
dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org
Thu Jan 31 20:18:54 UTC 2008
Jon Nettleton wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:03 -0500, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
>> On Jan 30, 2008 10:46 AM, Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton at gmail.com> 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.
Devilspie looks interesting. Looks like a nice lisp wrapper for stuff I
had been doing myself with wmctrl. So maybe wmctrl is worth looking at
as well.
-dmc
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