From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 23 14:35:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (unknown [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11FDF14D29 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:35:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tera.com) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03181; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:35:08 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA28922; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:35:07 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199903232235.OAA28922@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD X11 Desktop Theme Contest In-Reply-To: from Brett Taylor at "Mar 23, 99 02:06:05 pm" To: brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu (Brett Taylor) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:35:07 -0800 (PST) Cc: kline@tera.com, chirag@cse.iitb.ernet.in, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Brett Taylor: > Hi, > > On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Gary Kline wrote: > > > According to Brett Taylor: > > > > Haven't had any in awhile - I just made a new screenshot of my current > > > Window Maker desktop recently but I didn't put it up. I can point you to > > > it if you're interested. > > > Please do. > > Okay - be warned. It's a South Park-ified movie poster. It's also big > (read 326 kB). Sorry. :-) Not-a-problem since I'm onsite. That is a neat bg! The weather widget is nice. Another neat app would be having stock tickers from all over the world with whatever delay. ---Sorry, I'm drifting. > > http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/images/south_screen.jpg > > You can get the theme for this at wm.themes.org. I've modified the > original theme so that it would work (there are missing xpms and the > background is defined wrong in the theme initially) and then had it use a > bigger image than the one that it comes w/ from wm.themes.org (grabbed the > larger image from the original site) and then had the background image > centered instead of maximized. > Got to check out that site! It's be worthwhile having one of those JPEG's replace my present, grey xdm login screen. Jordan mentioned doing something similar with Chuck a year or two ago. > > [[ mumble ]] > > Ah... okay. I think then what you want is to set a window, say Netscape, > to always be on top? Yes, this is another way of looking at the issue. Either netscape or knews or another app. > If so you can do that in Window Maker. Start up > Netscape, right click on the title bar and choose window attributes and > then click on "Keep on top/floating" and it will always stay on top. > Even if you set your other apps to autoraise, this would still keep > Netscape on top (preventing the xterm from popping up over it). I imagine > that After Step and such have similar things, but I can't recall how to do > it in AS - I think it's something like "Always on Top" in the old 1.0 > wording. No clue how to do this in the latest versions. Is there a way of toggling that ``keep on top'' off as well? > > > What is "sloppy focus"? > > Sloppy focus is like auto-focus only the cursor can move out of the window > and that window will remain focussed until it enters another window. > > So that if you bump your mouse out of this xterm into root, say, you can keep on working... . That's a well-thought-out feature. gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message