Ian Malone ibmalone@gmail.com writes:
On 23 March 2014 19:08, lee lee@yun.yagibdah.de wrote:
Tom Horsley horsley1953@gmail.com writes:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 16:15:03 +0100 lee wrote:
Now someone tell me how I get virtual desktops with gnome or kde to which I can switch by just moving the mouse pointer over the edge of the screen? How do I get a pager as I have with fvwm with gnome or kde? Where is the configuration file for defining my key bindings, menues, window decorations ...?
kde: System Settings | Workspace Behaviour | Screen Edges | Other Settings | Switch desktop on edge (Disabled/Only when moving windows/Always Enabled). Also, System Settings | Workspace Appearance for appearance changes, Shortcuts and Gestures for...
That`s way more complicated than EdgeScroll 100 100. And what about gnome? I looked for it and didn`t even find a way to adjust the number of virtual desktops (or only that), let alone focus follows mouse and moving over the screen edges.
Compiz. Which did compositing (and didn't really need massive resources so much as graphics hardware support).
People seemed to worry a lot about it.
Had some nice and genuinely useful features which have not carried over to newer WMs which have adopted compositing.
Features like? It doesn`t have them anymore?
Though the cubes themselves were pretty cosmetic it was the same technology also that also let you view all desktops live when switching.
Hm, why would I want to do that? I have currently 6x6 and they would be too small to see anything.
KDE does not do true tiling (Compiz did).
Fvwm doesn`t, either, but I have some entries in the menu that tile some windows on the current desk. It works much better than a tiling WM like i3.
It does do pining, which is what the pin button at the top left of each window does.
You mean sticky floating windows? I3 is really nice, but it doesn`t do that, and I sometimes need them ...
And keyboard shortcuts for desktop changes (thought the default is Ctrl+F1-4 rather than ctrl+alt and arrow).
Ah yes, and those didn`t always work because everything had a key binding and they would conflict with each other ... That doesn`t happen with fvwm, they just work.
Many default key bindings are very useless to me because I use my trackball with my left hand, and I have a German keyboard which has an AltGr key on the right rather than an Alt key there. So I need key bindings I can use with my right hand.
And neither with kde, nor gnome you can even have the scroll bars on the left side where they belong :( Kde is at least capable, but when you do that, the menu entries inevitably move over to the right where they don`t belong and it gets even more awkward than it already is. Most X11 apps do it just fine, seamonkey does it --- and I think emacs too, but I turned them off.
Note for Fedora.next: Please make the scroll bars finally configurable and provide a way to switch the key bindings so that they can be used with the right hand ...