Re: enlightenement and windowmaker support

["Spencer Gibb" <spencerg imall com>]

I set the icons so they are underneath the panel so I never see them anyway.

Spencer

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Caldwell <rdtzine@toriamos.org>
To: Michael Perry <mperry@basin.com>; gnome-list@gnome.org
<gnome-list@gnome.org>
Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: enlightenement and windowmaker support


>Michael Perry wrote:
>
>> I started out using gnome 99.8 from the suse rpms under windowmaker
>> provided there also.  I found that I truly love the windowmaker desktop
>> with its easy themes, etc but windowmaker seems to love to create
>> appicons for things like the panel and gmc which is rather annoying at
>> least to me.
>
>I really like Window Maker and I use it with Gnome, but it does have a few
>features that require a little working around.    Application Icons are
>something I never really cared for to begin with.  They make it easy to
>dock an application in Window Maker, but other than that they just clutter
>the screen.   Since you don't really need the Dock when you're using the
>Gnome panel it would be nice to have a simple configuration setting to turn
>all appicons off.  Unfortunately none of the ways I've tried to make this
>happen have worked.
>
>It is possible to turn off appicons for individual applications by right
>clicking it's title bar and using the "Attributes..." menu.  That works,
>but it's difficult for applications that have no title bar (such as the
>panel) and too much trouble to do for every application you'll ever run.
>There's even a combination of settings in Attributes that looks like it
>should make the "no appicon" setting be the default for all applications,
>but it doesn't work.   Perhaps it's possible to make this work by editing
>the Window Maker configuration files, but I haven't dug into it deeply
>enough to try.
>
>My work around has been leaving the Clip enabled and setting "Auto Attract
>Icons" and  "Collapsed" under the Clip options menu.  Presto, the Clip
>sucks up all those errant appicons so you never see them.  You need to do
>that for each work space and save your Window Maker session to get it to
>remember that for future sessions.
>
>That opens another can of worms.  Window Maker has it's own ideas of
>session management.  If you do a save your session to save those Clip
>settings it will also try to remember everything else you're running at the
>time.  As a result Window Maker may try to start additional copies of the
>panel and other applications when Gnome starts Window Maker.  It can be a
>mess to figure out who is starting what so you're better off to save your
>Window Maker session when you're not running any applications.
>
>So yes, if you're annoyed by appicons Window Maker requires some work to
>integrate nicely with Gnome.  Maybe someone else here has a better
>solution, but it would be nice if the Window Maker configuration tool had
>simple options for turning off all appicons and disabling session
>management.  Still, if you can get through the initial tinkering Window
>Maker and Gnome make an excellent combination.
>
>Richard
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