Re: Theme patriation

[Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>]

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 19:09 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> 
> > Hi Allin,
> > 
> > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:34 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > > 1) I like to run an analog clock on my desktop...
> > 
> > Did you try cairo-clock ?
> > http://macslow.thepimp.net/?page_id=23
> 
> Disclaimer: I'm an old fart and a grouch.  But I really, really 
> don't want to have to run compiz just to get an analog clock! I 
> want my CPU cycles to be available for computations I'm interested 
> in.

What I can tell from my experience is that compiz uses less CPU cycles
than metacity. Perhaps more GPU cycles are consumed but you don't use
them for computations anyways.


> 
> > > 2) If desktop software supports multiple virtual desktops -- and 
> > > of course it should -- it seems rudimentary that you should be 
> > > able to specify that a given app always starts on desktop N...
> 
> > You should use Devil's Pie for that:
> > http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie
> 
> Looks interesting, though if devil's pie is third party, it looks 
> as if you need a fourth party app to provide a GUI for devil's 
> pie.  Sawfish does all this, with GUI, in one WM.
> 
> Allin Cottrell
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