Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sawfish-Pager "Ti Ta TNT" 0.7.3



Am Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:59:49 +1100
schrieb Allan Duncan <amd2345 fastmail com au>:

> On 26/01/10 02:25, Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
> >>>>> Sawfish-Pager "Ti Ta TNT" just awaits to be downloaded!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Get it
> >>>>> ======
> >>>>
> >>>> Out of curiosity, why do you use Sawfish-Pager?
> >>>>
> >>>> On my gnome based fedora distro I use the supplied "Workspace
> >>>> Switcher" which does the sort of things that I remember happened
> >>>> with Pager back when it was needed (and docked) with earlier
> >>>> gnomes.
> >>>
> >>> I don't use GNOME, so I don't use it's pager. In addition in
> >>> GNOMEs Pager you can't distinguish between Worspaces and
> >>> Viewports, whilst you can set different framecolors for both.
> >>> Also Sawfish Pager has additional options, say drawing via
> >>> hatching, marking the current viewport, and so on. GNOMEs Pager
> >>> is enough if you don't heavily use Viewports but Sawfish Pager is
> >>> better. (It's the same with that M thing, it basically works, but
> >>> Sawfish does the job better :P )
> >>
> >> I use a single workspace with 3x2 viewports.
> >> Does Pager have the capability to switch viewports when the mouse
> >> dwells on the viewport boundary?
> >
> > I have similar settings and the feature you are looking for is edge
> > flipping and has nothing to do with a pager. I use only sawfish
> > itself and with sawfish-ui/sawfish-config you can activate edge
> > flipping.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Daniel
> 
> Yeah, that's the sort of thing.  I looked through sawfish-config and 
> couldn't see anything relevant to viewports.  Is it perchance an 
> extension to the basic sawfish?
> 
> Looking at Chris' example sawfishrc I see "require 
> 'sawfish.wm.ext.edge-flip" which sounds like what I need if it
> applies to viewports, but I can't see anything in sawfish-config that
> it relates to.
> 
> I don't have any .sawfishrc at the moment, so I'll try adding in 
> snippets from the example rc and see what I get - a new item in 
> sawfish-config I hope.

SawfishConfig > Workspace > Edge-Flip (after requiring edge-flip
AFAIK). You can change the respond-type from workspace to viewport (or
vice versa) another interesting thing is the viewport-boundary-mode
dynmaic.

Chris


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