Hello,
Is everyone familiar with the AfterStep application that one activates by
clicking on a window's titlebar and the whole window disappears leaving the
titlebar there. I am not a fan of that utility, but it has inspired me to
think about something similar:
A click of a titlebar (this would have to be done through a binding of course)
causes the titlebar to stay in the same place but causes the window to disappear
and reappear in an upright position above the titlebar.
Advantages over the AfterStep utility: it is a quick way of seeing what is under
the screen and getting a window out of the way, but you can still see the
window's contents. On the other hand in AfterStep you cannot know which of
6 toolbars all labelled "xterm" is which and I find that a little annoying, and
I find that the AfterStep application is there not so much for the feel but for
the look.
Another advantage of my scheme is that you can work with windows with
the titlebar on the bottom, and I would just love it... you could also
have two windows occupy the (almost) exact same spot, onw with titlebar above
and one with titlebar below. Moving the mouse and using the autoraise modules
allows you to swap windows while leaving both titlebars visible.
|---------------------------------------------------|
| titlebar 1 |
|---------------------------------------------------|
| overlapping windows 1 and 2 ... |
| |
| switch back and forth by moving the pointer |
| to each (this only works with FvwmAuto) |
| and by no means would this be the only use of |
| the feature. |
| |
|---------------------------------------------------|
| titlebar 2 |
|---------------------------------------------------|
Best Regards,
Neil Zanella
nzanella_at_cs.mun.ca
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Received on Mon Aug 10 1998 - 18:29:34 BST