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Re: Annoying passive popups



Le Jeu 26 Mai 2005 09:26, Mihai Maties a écrit :
> On Thursday 26 May 2005 10:16, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > Le Jeu 26 Mai 2005 08:55, Mihai Maties a écrit :
> > > As you know KDE supports some passive message windows that can be
> > > used to inform you whenever some event occurs. For example I use
> > > them in Kmail to notify me whenever a new mail has arrived.
> > >
> > > Can the popup windows be forced to be displayed at some other
> > > coordinates ? Very often they cover a part of the screen that I
> > > don't want to be tampered with. It is very annoying to be
> > > interrupted and to wait for the popup window to disappear in
> > > order to see what is under the popup.
> >
> > you are not forced to wait, click on them, they will disappear. I
> > don't know for the coordinates,
>
> ... but if you have your hands on the keyboard you'll have to get the
> mouse, point to the window and ... when you want to click on it ...
> it disappears because of the timeout... :) It's quite a waste of
> time.
>
> > but on my desktop, those are at the screen's
> > top ...
>
> This is interesting, once I had kopete showing its popups in the
> top-left corner but I thought it is a bug. Without changing anything
> the next time I started KDE the popups were back to their place: next
> to kopete's system tray icon. Do you always have the popups at the
> top of the screen ?

I use the kmail systray icon (only when unread mail) and I have a dual 
head config.

my kmail stays on my left screen, maxmized (in kontact in fact). my 
popup is *always* in the top right corner of the head that has kontact 
in (even on other desktops).

-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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