Re: Gnome pager [WAS: Re: reviving sawfish development.]

[Allan Duncan <amd2345 fastmail com au>]

Eli Barzilay wrote:
> On Jun 28, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > On date Thursday 2007-06-28 20:29:05 +1000, Allan Duncan opened this window:
> > > Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> > > > If you use gnome, what's wrong with the gnome pager?
> > > >
> > > > I think the sawfish pager is intended for anti-gnome diehards like me. :)
> > > If you can tell me how to find gnome pager in gnome V2.18, please do.
> > > It exists in gnome V1.4
> > It's a gnome-panel applet, so you're supposed to run that. So if you
> > don't use gnome-panel you could need a sawfish pager or another
> > standalone pager instead.
>
> I like the pager to be at the bottom-right corner of the screen --
> easy enough to create one of those corner panels and put it there.
> But Gnome applications talk to each other more these days, and if you
> happen to be weird enough to log onto the machine with two different
> geometries (a large desktop screen, and a small VNC session), you'll
> discover that the corner panel on the VNC session makes the one on the
> desktop move to the same absolute place.

What version of gnome was this?

> I fought with this for too much time.  Switching to the sawfish pager
> made me feel sane again.

Does it dock with the panel?  I tried it with FC5 gnome (v 2.14) and it
wouldn't - it had to sit on the desktop proper.