Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome

2006-06-21 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* edwardsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-21 16:33]: [...] > You have only two choices, and neither produce the prior behavior for > new windows. "smart" apparently looks at the focus behavior, which only > changes the interaction of the mouse with the window. That is to say, > once the window is cr

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome (your not going to believe this!)

2006-06-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
> I have looked fairly carefully at the metacity.schemas file and I > have > not found a way to alter the window behavior to customize metacity. > I'm > now using KDE because gnome/metacity had diminished my productivty. > I > miss the simplicity of gnome's presentation and would use it agai

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome (your not going to believe this!)

2006-06-21 Thread edwardsa
Thibaut Paumard wrote: Hello, Le mardi 20 juin 2006 à 11:29 -0600, edwardsa a écrit : I have just found the metacity.schemas file and find that a new schema focus_new_windows has two possible values: "smart" applies the user's normal focus mode, and "strict" results in windows started fr

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome (your not going to believe this!)

2006-06-21 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hello, Le mardi 20 juin 2006 à 11:29 -0600, edwardsa a écrit : > I have just found the metacity.schemas file and find that a new schema > > focus_new_windows > > has two possible values: "smart" applies the user's normal focus mode, and > "strict" results in windows started from a terminal NOT b

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome

2006-06-21 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 6/20/06, Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 19:03 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 6/20/06, edwardsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the response. How do I get to the window manager preferences? > > I have looked pretty carefully through the desk

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome

2006-06-20 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 19:03 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 6/20/06, edwardsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the response. How do I get to the window manager preferences? > > I have looked pretty carefully through the desktop preferences. I'm > > using metacity as the window mana

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome (your not going to believe this!)

2006-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 edwardsa wrote: > I have just found the metacity.schemas file and find that a new > schema > > focus_new_windows > > has two possible values: "smart" applies the user's normal focus > mode, and "strict" results in windows started from a terminal NOT

Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome (your not going to believe this!)

2006-06-20 Thread edwardsa
I have just found the metacity.schemas file and find that a new schema focus_new_windows has two possible values: "smart" applies the user's normal focus mode, and "strict" results in windows started from a terminal NOT being given focus. Now, if I start a window from a terminal, why the hell w

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome

2006-06-20 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 6/20/06, edwardsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the response. How do I get to the window manager preferences? I have looked pretty carefully through the desktop preferences. I'm using metacity as the window manager. Try Applications->System Tools->Configuration Editor on your Menu Ba

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome

2006-06-20 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 6/20/06, Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 14:11 -0600, edwardsa wrote: > In the previous incarnation of gnome/X11 (sarge), when I click on the > main window of an application, an associated window would be placed on > top of all applications. In the testing dis

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome

2006-06-20 Thread edwardsa
Thanks for the response. How do I get to the window manager preferences? I have looked pretty carefully through the desktop preferences. I'm using metacity as the window manager. Art Edwards Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 14:11 -0600, edwardsa wrote: In the previous incarnat

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome

2006-06-20 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 14:11 -0600, edwardsa wrote: > In the previous incarnation of gnome/X11 (sarge), when I click on the > main window of an application, an associated window would be placed on > top of all applications. In the testing distribution, when I do the same > thing, a tile on the bo

Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome

2006-06-19 Thread edwardsa
In the previous incarnation of gnome/X11 (sarge), when I click on the main window of an application, an associated window would be placed on top of all applications. In the testing distribution, when I do the same thing, a tile on the bottom toolbar flashes to let me know I should click it. The