Rob Park <rbpark_at_ualberta.ca> writes:
> Alas! Gert Brinkmann spake thus:
> > Rob Park wrote:
> > >You might have liked my old fvwm config. There were no permanent UI
> > >elements... (no taskbar, nothing like that. you had the whole screen to
> > >maximize a window).
> > >
> > >Left clicking on the desktop got you a transient pager, middle clicking
> > >got you a list of running programs, and right clicking got you a menu
> > >for launching apps. _extremely_ minimalistic, moreso than blackbox ;)
> >
> > This sounds interesting. But what i dislike a little bit are the
> > required clicks onto the desktop. This means that you always have to see
> > a part of the root-window. Perhaps a good approach for this was, having
> > 1 pixel at the borders always uncovered (you should not be allowed to
> > maximize, resize or move windows about this 1 pixel area). Is this
> > possible somehow? Alternatively i would use hotkeys.
>
> Funny thing is, I told Fvwm that it could maximize to the full size of
> the screen (1024x768 at the time), and I could still access the menus by
> clicking along the screen edge. I guess Fvwm puts a border there, or
> maybe I accidentally configured it to put the menus on the windows
> borders as well as the desktop. Either way, I could still access them
> when there was a maximized window present.
There's a "pan frame" running around the edge of the screen that
fvwm uses for edge scrolling.
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Received on Wed Jan 15 2003 - 19:31:43 GMT