Re: windows

[Marcelo Chiapparini <chiappa@centroin.com.br>]

It worked fine! thank you!

Marcelo

On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 02:32:53PM -0800, David Steinberg wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> 
> > I am running helix (now ximian) gnome in a potato 2.2r box together
> > with sawfish as window manager. I wonder why there are some windows
> > which I cannot take control over them, as for example the
> > "about" windows, the confirmation windows, the output window from the
> > GNU midnight commander find file app and so on. 
> > All this kind of windows cannot be moved! does it has to do with gnome or 
> > sawfish?
> 
> Yup.  For some reason, they decided that this was a useful default.  If
> you start the GNOME Control Center, and select "Appearance" under "Sawfish
> window manager", you'll see an option called "Decorate dialog windows
> similarly to application windows."  Turn this one on, and your dialog
> boxes will be drawn with all the same controls as other windows.
> 
> --
> David Steinberg                             -o)
> Computer Engineering Undergrad, UBC         / \
> steinber@interchange.ubc.ca                _\_v
> 
> 
> -- 
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org 
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
>