Re: Small problem with panel (was Re: recently on the WindowMaker list)

["Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn" <xkahn cybersites com>]

	This is happening on all versions of FVWM and derivatives.  I'm
using Afterstep with the same problem.  I haven't been using the panel for
that reasn.  (Well, and the fact that I'm on a 486 with 24 megs of RAM...
Not enoughh to happily run everything.)

On Tue, 12 May 1998, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> On Tue, 12 May, 1998 at 11:33:41AM -0500, Rob Browning set free these words:
> > Matthew Hawkins <matt@mail.goldweb.com.au> writes:
> > 
> > > Something I'd like to see in the GNOME panel is the ability to position
> > > it on any part of the screen edge, not just at the far extremities.
> > > At the moment you're pretty restricted where you can place the panel 
> > > while running WindowMaker as wmaker has the dock down one screen edge
> > > and appicons and mini-icons on the bottom.
> > 
> > I'd still love to see an option for the dock (and perhaps fiend too)
> > where it would always be on top, and would slide off the screen (like
> > the panel) when the pointer's not over it.
> > 
> I've been having one small usability problem with panel and fvwm2 that seems
> to relate to autohide -- although I'm entirely sure.  In fvwm2, you can have
> separate workplaces and a connected virtual desktop (of separate screens.)  In
> the virtual desktop, you can set it so moving the mouse to the edge of the
> screen tells the window manager to trade screens.  With the panel, this
> functionality does not work -- Moving to the edge containing the panel never
> causes the windowmanager to page the screen.
> 
> I've seen this problem with fvwm2's taskbar set to autohide before, but not
> when it doesn't autohide.  Panel prevents moement whether it's set to autohide
> or explicit show.... Somehow the panel is interefering with fvwm2's detection
> that the mouse cursor is at the edge of the screen.
> 
> -Toshio
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						-Ben

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