Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > I am using latest Solaris 10 as of August. I have been using > Motif/CDE on Solaris since 1993 and used olvwm before that. With the > latest CDE pages, there is now a "deprecation" warning that CDE will > soon go away. Even though CDE is way behind the times, it has been > quite useful for me and allows making full use of my system. > > So I decided to give JDS/Gnome a try. After three full days of trying > to configure this desktop environment to allow me to do what was so > easy in CDE, I am becoming quite frustrated. There are many issues > ranging from software crashes, to ease of use, to just plain > scalability. > > The issue I want to address in this email is the scalability issue. I > usually use 8 virtual desktops with a pretty heavy application load. > It seems that Gnome is restricted to a Windows '95 paradigm showing a > tab in the bottom pane for each running process. I have not been able > to find a way to configure it to work any way else. It is driving me > crazy. In CDE I have the whole screen to keep track of running > applications, and usually just a small part is necessary to make sense > of it all. In Gnome, not enough is displayed in each application tab > for me to even see what the application is. > > Please see the following image to see what I mean. > > http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/solaris/pane-pain.png > > Is there a way around this other than wholesale replacement of > standard Gnome components (such as the metacity window manager)? >
You can add a new panel and drag to the right screen edge to make it vertical. Go to panel properties and increase the size to make it fatter. Then add a "Window List" applet to it and you will have a readable vertical list of app tabs. The other alternative is to add a "Window Selector" applet that appears as a small button on the panel. Clicking it will bring up a list of the running apps which you can switch to. Regards, Moinak. > Thanks, > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
