g2 question list

[Randy Bush <randy psg com>]

freebsd 4.7-stable, gnome2 from ports tree

gnome-session

  o can i start a single app, e,g, ssh-add, and after it completes,
    and only after it completes, then start a bunch of windows?
    and it does not seem happy if i try to run it from .xinitrc

  o why does it take soooooo long to start?  it seems to be in
    gnome-login.check for many minutes

  o i have terms and other apps in a dozen workspaces.  but when
    it starts the session it tries to cram them all in the first
    workspace.

panel

  o in gnome2, how do i create a mini-launcher?

  o presuming i solve the above and get a mini-launcher a la
    gnome1, how do i re-arrange the little icons within it?

  o how do i get a favorites pulldown in a gnome2 general panel?

  o how do i change a panel from edge to corner?

  o how can i have two mini-launchers in the same panel but with
    different content?

  o where the heck did GNotes go?

  o i can put the gnotes applet in a drawer but how do i put it in
    a menu?  imiho, the differences between drawers and menus
    should merely be style, not semantics

  o how do i put the appended small script into a swallowed
    application?  i really need multiple timezone clocks.

sawfish

  o how do i cause an opening window to extend to the bottom of the
    screen, a la button-3 in tvtwm?

  o how do i move a window into the workspace when all i have is
    the bottom of it, i.e. no title bar to grab?

  o when i ask to maximize, on one system it does as expected, use
    the full window.  on another, it does not like to cover other
    windows.

nautilus

  o how do i set a background color and pattern that applies to all
    folders?

randy

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env TZ=GMT        xdaliclock -24 -noseconds -font -*-lucida-*-r-*-*-8-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 -fg blue  &
                  xdaliclock -24 -noseconds -font -*-lucida-*-r-*-*-8-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 -fg white &
env TZ=Asia/Tokyo xdaliclock -24 -noseconds -font -*-lucida-*-r-*-*-8-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 -fg red   &
env TZ=PST8PDT    xdaliclock -24 -noseconds -font -*-lucida-*-r-*-*-8-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 -fg green &