Re: [Usability] (no subject)

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Hi Hynek,

I was doing exactly that in gnome-1.X. With enlightenment I could:
* turn off the border
* make the app sticky and
* send it to the background

I run a root-session in this background terminal and could easily do things there.
When starting gtk2-apps one can pass some options like window-class or so, but I 
never was able to find out if this would allow to ask for a borderless window.
gnome-terminal can also run in full-screen-mode, but its still not exactly the 
anted behaviour. Finally all the feature need to be actvatable via commandline 
options so that gnome-session can restart the app in the same way for each session.

Stefan

Hynek Hanke wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> for me, the classical ``background'' of my Gnome desktop (some inactive
> image + a few icons on top of it) is something quite old and not really
> working well in how I use computers today. In their present form , I
> don't use desktop icons at all. But I have no idea about better
> solutions for an ordinary user.
>
> However, what *I* would like to do, is to use the background as a
> terminal. That would really very much improve the Gnome usability
> for me (and maybe that's the case of other power users too, I don't
> know). I keep launching gnome-terminal all the time for every silly
> thing, that's annoying. And when I have it as a window, it gets in the
> way while doing other things, so I shut it down again. Only to need
> to launch it again in a while...
>
> What I'd love to have (when I launch Gnome and no app is running) is:
> the bottom Gnome pannel (with menus, applets and icons), the terminal
> (maybe with a nice picture) as a background (no icons there), the bottom
> Gnome pannel with a list of running applications.
>
> I was thinking of doing this by a maximized gnome-terminal that will
> automatically launch itself on startup. However, I have two issues:
>
> 1) I can't get rid of the metacity border (and especially the top box)
> of the window.
>
> 2) gnome-terminal gets listed among the running applications on the
> bottom Gnome pannel. I'd love to make it disappear from there.
>
> 3) I would love it to get focus on startup.
>
> Please, do you have any ideas how can I solve these three issues?
> I'm no experienced Gnome user, so excuse me if this sounds too dumb.
>
> I could easily launch apps from command line, I could use gnome in
> the same powerful way as I use the console, no need to use mouse
> or the not-so-easy-keyboard navigation when I don't want to... i would
> love that :)
>
> Thank you,
> Hynek Hanke
>
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