Re: Questionnaire 3 on Sawfish usage

[Rafal Kolanski <rafalk cse unsw edu au>]

On 07/08/10 08:47, Teika Kazura wrote:
> Hi, here comes the third questionnaire on Sawfish usage.

> 1. What's your theme? Any comments on Sawfish theme?

I use mxflat, with a border width of 2 and title-contents border of 1. 
The theme is really lovely in taking up minimal amounts of room around a 
window, while looking very simple. It also sneaks a pixel of desktop on 
either side of a maximised window, meaning I can click through to it if 
I wish.

I tried creating a theme once, but my LISP skills were not up to it, so 
I'm glad mxflat is such a good match for me :)

> 2. Why you switched to Sawfish? Is there any feature lacking in
>     Sawfish, but was present in your previous window manager?

Two things brought me in: intelligent window placement and customisability.

For placement I use "smart placement".

Initially, I only used the extremely flexible keybindings. Since then 
I've hacked together a few things, such as being able to generate both 
Polish and German symbols on a normal US-layout, by generating input 
events involving the compose key. E.g. "Super-z" generates "Compose . z" 
which results in "ż".

> 3. What's your trayer, if you're using Sawfish standalone?

Using sawfish within GNOME.

> 4. How do you switch the window? After all, it's the window manager. :)

I have five workspaces, bound to these keys: F9,F10,F11,F12,PrintScreen. 
This allows me to switch near-instantly between workspaces. I try to 
keep the amount of windows per workspace small, so that Super-Tab and 
Super-S-Tab is good enough for me.

As for the mouse, I have standard behaviour: click to focus. I really 
like how Sawfish doesn't always raise a window when it receives focus.

> 5. Do you switch the screen resolution? If so, tell us your related
>     hacks, or what you want there.

No.

> By the way, please add any of your wish items on "Long term todos"
> page on the wiki:
> http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Long_term_todos.
>
> Remember that what's difficult for you may be a minutes-hack for
> else. (Rarely, but we've actually seen such cases.)

If I think of anything, I'll put it up. I'm rather happy with Sawfish at 
the moment.

I hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Rafal Kolanski.