Re: gnome compliance

Chris Lee (chris@elfhame.net)
Fri, 02 Aug 2002 03:18:42 -0500 


On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 19:30:16 +0100, James said:

> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 12:34:36PM -0500, Chris Lee wrote:
>  | 
>  | On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:50:31 +0100, James said:
>  | 
>  | > On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 05:19:32PM +0100, rupert@complinet.com wrote:
>  | >  | 
>  | >  | > Bah. I see nothing wrong with AS as it is. Gnome is not the end all be 
>  | >  | > all, I run AS in the first place to get away from the bloat of Gnome, KDE 
>  | >  | > and friends.
>  | >  | 
>  | >  | well said :-)
>  | >  | pager, wharf and startmenu do everything i need, and leave me with
>  | >  | a damn sight more free memory!
>  | >  
>  | >  The only tiny thing with AS and GNOME is that AS doesn't know where the
>  | >  GNOME panels are. So you hit maximise and it covers the panels.
>  | >  
>  | >  I'm bored, is there a way of altering it so the panels don't get
>  | >  covered? and where would I put such code? :-)
>  | >  
>  | 
>  | ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/database
>  | add the line:
>  | Style	"panel" 	NoTitle, StaysOnTop, WindowListSkip, NoHandles,
>  | AvoidCover
>  | or somthing like it in there.
>  | 'man afterstep' for further details on use of the database file.
>  
>  Hmm, thanks for that. That works when moving windows around - they
>  "bang" into the sides of the panels now, instead of hiding under/over
>  them, but I am still free to resize the window (either manually or with
>  the maximise button) under any panel.
>  

Ok, I'll look at the Gnome module when I finish breaki^H^H^H^H^H^H working on
Pager and see if there's anything that can be done about it.

>  The GNOME panels have an "Avoid on maximize" option in their settings,
>  which is enabled, but it doesn't seem to do anything.
>  
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peace,
Chris -- a.k.a. LabMonkey
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