Re: Gnome-Pager Task Switching!

[raster redhat com]

On 27 Nov, sml13@cornell.edu scribbled:
->  Well, after successfully compiling E from CVS (whoah, boy! :-) I can 
->  attest to the fact that gnome-pager does indeed do task-switching just 
->  dandy.  It even allows you to configure if you want to the tasks just on 
->  the current desktop to be shown or all tasks (a feature fvwm95 is 
->  lacking...to my knowlege...and a feature which I wrote Mike asking for in 
->  his thing).  For those doubting Thomases out there (my heart is with you, 
->  my friends...for I am one of you :-), here is a screenshot on my very own 
->  desktop:
->  
->  http://24.3.242.128/proof.jpeg
->  
->  Yeah, Mike, you might want to focus on contributing to the current 
->  Gnome-Pager...cuz this thing rocks!

NB - it works MUCH better when you dont use that macos theme (default
GTK, or some of the pixmaps and javs metal swing themes) 

also NB: popup right-click menus on the tasks were disabled recently
because of a memory leak in gnome-libs.. so they USEd to have popup
menus to shade/unshade, iconify close and kill.. 

If anyone wishes to contribute to this pager - please do. It uses part
of the GNOME WM hints standard to do the taskbart and desktop
swtiching.. icewm should support this right now (the development
version) as well. More WM's will probably follow in time.

->  
->  Enjoy ;-)
->  shane
->  
->  On Fri, 27 Nov 1998 raster@redhat.com wrote:
->  
->  > On 27 Nov, sml13@cornell.edu scribbled:
->  > ->  The Gnome pager doesn't do process switching, right?  You can flames me to 
->  > ->  hell, but I think being able to switch by processes is very nice (it is 
->  > ->  one of the things I like about KDE, Win95, WinNT, and fvwm95).  With 
->  > ->  utmost respect to Raster (the author of the Gnome pager, judging from the 
->  > ->  source) and you, Jeff, I think that Mike's "process switching" pager 
->  > ->  should be included in the core distribution, when it is ready.  
->  > 
->  > the gnome pager does process switching.. happily :)
->  > 
->  > ->  Am I the only one who likes this?
->  > ->  
->  > ->  my $0.02
->  > ->  shane
->  > ->  
->  > ->  On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Jeff Garzik wrote:
->  > ->  
->  > ->  > Miguel de Icaza wrote:
->  > ->  > > 
->  > ->  > > 
->  > ->  > > > Of course for such a thing to work, the window manager must be
->  > ->  > > > patched up.  I have currently only patched Window Maker so far.
->  > ->  > > 
->  > ->  > > Interesting applet, I like it.
->  > ->  > > 
->  > ->  > > I know the KDE Window Manager has some protocol to tell their panel
->  > ->  > > about the existing windows open.  It would be nice to have a
->  > ->  > > compatible protocol here and add this protocol to the list of Window
->  > ->  > > Manager hints that GNOME understands.
->  > ->  > 
->  > ->  > I think this brings up the more general point that a window list is a
->  > ->  > much more useful 'task list' than a process list is...
->  > ->  > 
->  > ->  > 	Jeff
->  > ->  > 
->  > ->  > 
->  > ->  > 
->  > ->  > 
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