On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:16:16 +0100 Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Cool. Do you launch them just by kicking off kdesktop and gnome-panel > somewhere in the openbox config? I run fluxbox and start just about everything extra from my .xsession file and have the option for the fluxbox panel to be visible set to false in the fluxbox init file with a fair percentage of those being windowmaker dock apps. # Begin .xsession gnome-settings-daemon & gnome-panel & skippy & docker & wmifs -i eth0 & wmwave & wmifs -i eth2 & wmmon & wmix & wmnetselect -e /usr/bin/firefox -t & fbpager -w & wmShutdown & exec fluxbox # End .xsession With the Gnome settings daemon started this way it allows me to change things from the settings menu on the Gnome panel or from the Gnome control center and have those settings applied when I start my X session. At least for the mouse cursors and probably for other things as well I have to restart the X session before I see the changes, where in a full gnome session the changes are immediate. I have not tried to do the same thing with KDE stuff, but I do run a more KDE centric distrobution where I use fluxbox as the window manager for KDE with an X session like this: # Begin .xsession export KDEWM=fluxbox exec startkde # End .xsession In this configuration I disable the option in KDE of showing the desktop icons, which disables right click stuff too so you have access to the right click stuff provided by the window manager. I have used Metacity with KDE this way as well with the addition of starting gnome-settings-daemon from the KDE autostart directory so my choice of GTK themes and Metacity window boarders would stick and also running a single gnome panel at the top of the screen and kicker at the bottom. One of the things that sold me on using Fluxbox as my window manager was the ability to put any application windows together to form a single tabbed window just by using the middle mouse button to drag the title bar of one window over the title bar of another. It's not a feature I use heavily but it does come in handy if you've got some on going task that has you doing stuff in 2 or 3 different applications or with multiple windows of a single application that doesn't provide tabs on it's own. Later, Seeker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
