[e-users] pinning windows to the background

2006-07-29 Thread John Meissen
I tried searching the archives for a couple of things I'd like to do. I wasn't able to find anything relevant, so I figured I'd ask politely. Maybe someone can give me an easy answer. I'm a recent convert, having been an AfterStep user for something like 10 years. Unfortunately, AfterStep develop

Re: [e-users] pinning windows to the background

2006-07-30 Thread John Meissen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > One of those features was the ability to force a window to always be at the > back relative to all of the other windows. Duh. I found the "Stacking" window attribute in the window menus. I don't know why my brain didn't register that before. :-( Still it would be nice

Re: [e-users] pinning windows to the background

2006-07-30 Thread John Meissen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > we could tell you - but that wouldn't be as much fun :) :-) The fastest way to figure something out is to open your mouth and say you can't figure it out. I swear I looked at that menu,... really. So where is the iconbox position defined? Thanks. john- --

[e-users] Mapping keystrokes to mouse/cursor movement

2006-07-31 Thread John Meissen
Is there a way to move the mouse cursor via keyboard? I haven't found a keymapping to do that. Also I'd like to be able to move/resize windows via keyboard. For instance, map a keystroke to Window Move, which would cause the active window's position to follow cursor movement (see above) until I

Re: [e-users] e17 & Rox pinboard

2006-08-21 Thread John Meissen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > e16 has a nifty feature which allows regular bash scripts to be run on > startup, restart, and shutdown. This differs from e17 in that you don't need > to create eap files. > I have an script in .e16/Init that reads: Peter, If I may ask, what version of E are you run

[e-users] trying to control eSound

2004-05-27 Thread John Meissen
A long time, in a version far, far away (circa 2001), I could use esdctl to pause/resume esd and it didn't matter what user I was. Fast-forward to a more recent version (Mandrake 10.0 release), and even though the permissions on the socket are 777 I can only talk to the server if I'm the user th

Re: [e-users] trying to control eSound

2004-06-01 Thread John Meissen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > John Meissen said: > >I can only talk to the server if I'm the user that started it. > > > The user who launched esd must type 'esdctl unlock' to let other user > use this daemon, I think. Does it solve the problem ? I swear I t

Re: [e-users] trying to control eSound

2004-06-01 Thread John Meissen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > John Meissen said: > >I can only talk to the server if I'm the user that started it. > > > The user who launched esd must type 'esdctl unlock' to let other user > use this daemon, I think. Does it solve the problem ? Actually, I re

Re: [e-users] trying to control eSound

2004-06-03 Thread John Meissen
I said: > What I need is for the -promiscuous option to work as documented. I added > it to /etc/esd.conf, and I can see it in the process command-line. But it > doesn't work. In fact, it's even worse - it appears to have exactly the opposite effect. Am I reading the man page wrong? If I start