Re: Lighter window managers
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Lance Simmons wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:04:42PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote:
> >
> > 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.
One way to get around this problem is to use 'screen' with a desktop wm.
Keep all terminals and such in only one desktop wm window with 'screen',
and open another window for GIMP. Voila! you have a desktop wm, can use
GIMP and also have all the good deeds of ratpoison (ratpoison was
actually made to look like 'screen')
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