Re: [Usability] Running gnome-terminal as a desktop background



Am Freitag, den 16.09.2005, 09:23 +0100 schrieb Ross Burton:
> On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 09:53 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > > I was thinking of doing this by a maximized gnome-terminal that will
> > > automatically launch itself on startup. However, I have two issues:
> > 
> > The following issues should be resolvable by some coding on your behalf.
> > Welcome to the developer community! :)
> > You'd have to introduce a new --use-as-background switch which does do
> > the following three things you want:
> 
> Ewww, I really hope that patch doesn't get accepted!

Of course not, it would have been a private hack!

> > > 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.
> 
> You want Devil's Pie[1], which will let you remove the boarder, maximuse
> the window, remove it from the task list and (I think) mark it as the
> desktop so it can never be on top of an application.
> 
> Ross
> [1] http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie

I wasn't aware that Devil's Pie is that poweful :).

-- 
Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>

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