Snow Bender <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Ben Kibbey <[email protected]> wrote: >> Snow Bender <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Aside from that, is there also a system tray included? Is it possible >>> to create something that looks like the status bar in awesome wm? How >>> do most people use sawfish? Using it inside another desktop >>> environment, or assembling their own desktop using third-party >>> components like a panel, a system tray, or e.g. conky? >> >> I recently switched to Sawfish from FVWM after recently switching from >> Vim to Emacs. :) I use conky for system stats and cairo-compmpr for >> compositing and cairo-dock for the task bar, system tray and pager. Oh, >> and colortail for viewing system logs in a transparent Eterm. It looks >> nice and has transparency but it is a little buggy sometimes. > > I'm a long time Emacs user but never really created any advanced emacs-lisp. > Good ideas, I will check those programs. Maybe I am mistaken, but > isn't Eterm using fake transparency? Or has it been updated/rewritten > in the mean time? Since you use cairo-compmgr for composite anyways, > can't you make any window transparent?
Yes, true. Kind of redundant. Sorry for the confusion. Although, cairo-dock can emulate transparency so cairo-compmgr isn't needed, Eterm fake transparency may be useful. -- Ben Kibbey -- Sawfish ML
