Re: Sticky Windows

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 17:09 +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> 
> > I remember seeing an equivalent feature in that modern window manager
> > called "twm". Only in that it wasn't restricted to the screen edges,
> > it was anywhere on the desktop area!
> 
> I remember this feature from my AmigaOS 15 years ago.
> 
> But AmigaOS implemented it better allowing to send key events to
> minimized applications: Simply putting mouse pointer over the icon and
> entering commands into minimized terminal or press shortcuts for
> minimized editor was really cool.

It was, although IIRC there wasn't a great deal of visual feedback, so
there was an increased danger of typing somewhere you weren't expecting
to type and doing something you didn't want to :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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