Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!nntp-read!jc From: jc@raven.bu.edu (James Cameron) Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look Subject: OLVWM comments and suggestions. Message-ID: Date: 13 May 91 03:47:28 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Distribution: comp Organization: What do you mean 'That *can't* be done????' Lines: 58 I have grown fond of the OLVWM and would like to make a few suggestions on feature enhancements. 1. Fix the sticky problem with Xview clients. I am not an X programmer and I have heard of some problems with the Xview clients and some properties which aren't being set, but this to me is a bad bug. biggest problem is that the Pinned Root Menu cannot be sticky. 2. It should use the second or third mouse button to move the viewing area, as sometimes there is little or no background to grab ahold of and you end up moving a client application. (Yes, I know that the arrows can move the viewing angle, but this is just simply not what I want to have to do.) 3. Add a boolean resource "VirtualStickyIcons" which makes all icons sticky when set to true. 4. Add a boolean resource "VirtualSameColor" which when set to true has the background color of the client represented in the Virtual Desktop. 5. Allow clients to be inconified from within the Desktop and placement of the icon would be dependent upon the value of "VirtualStickyIcons". 6. Be able to specify one corner (say the bottom right corner) as to not allow sticky clients. 7. Have the Virtual Desktop follow the OLWM resources for icon placement; it always iconifies to the top left corner which REALLY annoys me. It would seem this was a bug. 8. As mentioned in the man page, new frames should enherit the stickyness of the parent. I may have pointed out a few things here, but that is only because I use OLVWM extensively, and enjoy its features. It is one hell of a weekend-hack! *8-) And the author should have his name in the man page! Feel free to make comments, suggestions, etc about my "wants" for the window manager as this will create good discussions. Also, I *do* have good reasons for the suggestions, and if you are curious, feel free to ask me why (if it is not obvious, and even if it is!). jc -- -- James Cameron (jc@raven.bu.edu) Signal Processing and Interpretation Lab. Boston, Mass (617) 353-2879 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "But to risk we must, for the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. For the man or woman who risks nothing, has nothing, does nothing, is nothing." (Quote from the eulogy for the late Christa McAuliffe.)