Re: Lighter window managers
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:04:42PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote:
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> I gave ratpoision and ion a try last week, and really liked them both,
> but found that when running a program like Gimp, that each window that
> Gimp brings up for toolbox, etc becomes unnecessarily large (as in full
> screen). Is there anyway to control that?
Not that I know of. Some programs, like Gimp, make heavy use of the
desktop metaphor. They're hard to use in ion or ratpoison (or at least
I haven't figured out how to do it easily). What I do instead is start
my X session with selectwm, using ratpoison as the default. If I need
to use a wm that keeps the desktop metaphor, I can quickly exit
ratpoison and switch to another wm without losing any of my windows.
Once I'm done with that program, I exit the "desktop" wm, and go back to
ratpoison.
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