Re: Icon Manager accessible but out of the way?

From: Gary Kline (kline@thought.org)
Date: Sun Mar 08 1998 - 04:52:19 CET


According to Kai Grossjohann:
> I've been thinking of reorganizing my desktop to get more space for my
> application windows. Now that we have autolower (ha! :-) I thought
> that maybe it would be nice if I could tell ctwm to always leave the
> top row of pixels (or the left row) untouched so that I could put an
> Icon Manager there which pops up when I need it and goes out of sight
> when I don't. Wouldn't that be a nice thing to have?
>
> Another idea would be to make it AlwaysOnTop and AutoSqueeze (in
> squeezed state maybe 1 pixel in the upper left corner). But squeezing
> doesn't work with the Icon Manager.
>
> Have you got any ideas for things that one could add to ctwm to
> achieve this? Or maybe it's possible already, I just don't know
> enough about ctwm?
>

        This strikes me as a Good Idea (TM) too. What kinds of
        icon manager do you use? Recommendations? I don't use
        many apps, but an icon manager would save me finding
        root-window space, then clicking on a pop-up and going
        to the correct slot and clicking.

        I've got perhaps 10x3 cm**2 of free root-window, so if
        there are any configurable IM's out there, please drop
        a line!

        gary

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   Gary D. Kline         kline@tao.thought.org          Public service uNix



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