Re: Backgrounds
cajun (cajun@tdl.com)
Fri, 16 Apr 1999 18:39:53 -0700
HAHAHAHAHA
I wondered the same thing, but thought hmmm.... maybe I'm missing
something !
Mark Ogden wrote:
>
> What the hell do you use 12 desks for!?
>
> Markypoos
>
> On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Greg Anderson wrote:
>
> > James wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, ishamael wrote:
> > >
> > > # Pager handles the main background stuff (which is why everyone runs
> > > # Pager).
> > >
> > > i don't like pager, it confuses me when the desks suddenly flip (i have
> > > a virtual X desktop which scrolls, and when i hit the sides it'd flip
> > > into another desktop. very annoying when trying to hit buttons on my
> > > wharf (i use a trackball and tend to spin the ball and catch it when it's
> > > near what i want to point at))
> >
> >
> > I love the pager. I have 12 desks with four pages each. The man page
> > for AfterStep has your solution: Make the change to EdgeResistance and
> > EdgeScroll in your active feel file and then reload it from the start
> > menu. Here is a bit of the man page...
> >
> > EdgeResistance delay pixels
> > Specifies how hard it should be to change views
> > within a desktop by moving the mouse over the edge
> > of the screen, and how hard it should be to move a
> > window over the edge of a screen.
> >
> > The delay in milliseconds, defines how long the
> > pointer must spend at the screen edge before that
> > view becomes current. This is useful in conjunc-
> > tion with EdgeScroll 100 100, so the views don't
> > get switched accidently.
> >
> > The pixels defines how far over the edge a window
> > must "appear" to move before it actually moves par-
> > tially off the screen.
> >
> > Note that with EdgeScroll 0 0, it is still possible
> > to move or resize windows across the edge of the
> > current screen. By setting the pixels parameter of
> > EdgeResistance to 10000, this type of motion is
> > impossible. However, with EdgeResistances less than
> > 10000, but greater than 0, moving over pages
> > becomes difficult but not impossible.
> >
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