metacity question

[Nils Philippsen]

On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 23:05, Neil Birchler wrote:
> > If you check previous posts by others in this forum, you'll see that
> > this 'lacking option' is one of the downpoints of Nautilus.
> 
> this has nothing to do with Nautilus and everything to do with the
> fact
> that Metacity has nearly _ZERO_ configuration options. i mean jeebuz,
> you can't even make a window always be on top. am i using ms windows,
> because i always thought *NIX stuff was supposed to be _more_
> configurable.

On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 23:19, Neil Birchler wrote:
> > Metacity is a simple window manager for basic stuff anyone can in theory 
> > use. Its like complaining gedit isnt fully emacs equivalent, you don't
> > 'fix gedit' you use emacs. 
> 
> point taken. "Always on Top" is not what i would consider an exotic
> feature though.

Recent metacity versions have the GConf key
/apps/metacity/windows_keybindings/toggle_above with which you can at
least configure a key combination to put the window on top. Not that
this really warrants leaving it out of the window menu (instead of
having many entries "Move to Workspace N" which could be easily put into
a sub menu if N is too great -- here, N==8 ;-). You could even hide this
behind a boolean GConf key to not scare away mere mortals with too many
menu items.

I don't know whether Havoc takes patches in that direction.

Nils
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