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') -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
