Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:35:07 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu (Brett Taylor) Cc: kline@tera.com, chirag@cse.iitb.ernet.in, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD X11 Desktop Theme Contest Message-ID: <199903232235.OAA28922@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903231350310.11710-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> from Brett Taylor at "Mar 23, 99 02:06:05 pm"
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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
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