Re: Theme patriation

2008-10-28 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Thomas Thurman wrote: > Ysgrifennodd Allin Cottrell: > > "You are not running under a composited desktop-environment (e.g. > > compiz). cairo-clock cannot work properly without one." > > I think you have compositing turned off. Do this: > > gconftool -s /apps/metacity/gene

Re: Theme patriation

2008-10-28 Thread Thomas Thurman
Ysgrifennodd Allin Cottrell: > "You are not running under a composited desktop-environment (e.g. > compiz). cairo-clock cannot work properly without one." I think you have compositing turned off. Do this: gconftool -s /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager -t bool true Thomas -- Thomas T

Re: Theme patriation

2008-10-28 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Thomas Thurman wrote: > Ysgrifennodd Allin Cottrell: > > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Thomas Thurman wrote: > > > Who mentioned compiz? This was about reasons not to run metacity. > > > > Nobody explicitly mentioned compiz, but when I followed up the > > link to cairo-clock which I

Re: Theme patriation

2008-10-28 Thread Thomas Thurman
Ysgrifennodd Allin Cottrell: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Thomas Thurman wrote: > > Who mentioned compiz? This was about reasons not to run metacity. > > Nobody explicitly mentioned compiz, but when I followed up the > link to cairo-clock which I was offered (and which I reproduced in > my posting) i

Re: Theme patriation

2008-10-28 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Thomas Thurman wrote: > Ysgrifennodd Allin Cottrell: > > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > > Did you try cairo-clock ? > > > http://macslow.thepimp.net/?page_id=23 > > > > Disclaimer: I'm an old fart and a grouch. But I really, really > > don't want to have to r

Re: Theme patriation

2008-10-28 Thread Yu Feng
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 19:09 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > > Hi Allin, > > > > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:34 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > > 1) I like to run an analog clock on my desktop... > > > > Did you try cairo-clock ? > > http://macslow.thepi

Re: Theme patriation

2008-10-28 Thread Thomas Thurman
Ysgrifennodd Allin Cottrell: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > Did you try cairo-clock ? > > http://macslow.thepimp.net/?page_id=23 > > Disclaimer: I'm an old fart and a grouch. But I really, really > don't want to have to run compiz just to get an analog clock! I > want my CPU cy

Re: Theme patriation

2008-10-28 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Hi Allin, > > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:34 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > 1) I like to run an analog clock on my desktop... > > Did you try cairo-clock ? > http://macslow.thepimp.net/?page_id=23 Disclaimer: I'm an old fart and a grouch. But I really

Re: Placing on desktops (was: Theme patriation)

2008-10-28 Thread Thomas Thurman
Ysgrifennodd Tim Evans: > So in theory identifying "the same" window is a solved problem, but do many > applications actually set the window role? gtk_window_set_role() sets WM_WINDOW_ROLE, which is defined in ICCCM sec. 5.1: http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/sec-5.html . It's supposed to be used

Re: Placing on desktops (was: Theme patriation)

2008-10-28 Thread Tim Evans
Thomas Thurman wrote: Christoph and Allin raise the question of the placement of an application's windows on the same desktop every time the application starts. This is known as "window matching", and there is currently no good way to do it. The subject turns out to be on-topic for this list.

Re: memory leak when destroying widgets

2008-10-28 Thread Kalle Vahlman
2008/10/27 Jacques Le Normand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello list > I have this short program that's leaking memory (according to top). Could > someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? > The program simply creates, packs and shows 100 gtk_entries and then > destroys them at 400 ms intervals > I apprecia

Re: Theme patriation

2008-10-28 Thread Yu Feng
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 08:03 +0200, Kalle Vahlman wrote: > 2008/10/27 John Stowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 11:44 +0100, Steve Frécinaux wrote: > >> Ross Burton wrote: > >> > >> > Adding _NET_WM_CONTEXT_TOOLBAR sounds like it should be fairly simple to > >> > do, especially wit

Segementation Fault [Newbie]

2008-10-28 Thread Sulabh Bista
Dear all: I am new to GTK. I am learning the basics like buttons, packing, signals etc. and along with it trying to write a Nibbles like worm game. The rough structure of the game is ready. Now I want to add a menu bar to the game interface. But I am having problem with menus. Below is the progra

memory leak when destroying widgets

2008-10-28 Thread Jacques Le Normand
Hello list I have this short program that's leaking memory (according to top). Could someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? The program simply creates, packs and shows 100 gtk_entries and then destroys them at 400 ms intervals I appreciate any help you can give P.-S. I didn't know which list to send

Re: Theme patriation

2008-10-28 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:02 AM, Christoph Burgdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to echo a demand fort hat in gnome. Choosing on which vDesktop > an app would start is something I have been missing since I became familiar > with the concept of vDesktops in Linux. There are some plan

AW: Placing on desktops (was: Theme patriation)

2008-10-28 Thread Christoph Burgdorf
Exactly, I don't want it to rememember the last used vDesk because I don't think that would be very helpful (at least not for me). My software would just pop up on random virtual desktops because I have no specific rule which app to use on which vDesk. I just move windows randomly to different v

placing on desktops

2008-10-28 Thread Christoph Burgdorf
I would not say I want to start it on the same desktop every time it starts. I think it would be just fine if you had the possibility to right click on the app launcher and choose "start on > desktop 3" or just hold down a specific key on your keyboard while you double click an app launcher a

Placing on desktops (was: Theme patriation)

2008-10-28 Thread Thomas Thurman
Christoph and Allin raise the question of the placement of an application's windows on the same desktop every time the application starts. This is known as "window matching", and there is currently no good way to do it. The subject turns out to be on-topic for this list. What people want is f

Re: Theme patriation

2008-10-28 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi Allin, On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:34 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote: > 1) I like to run an analog clock on my desktop. Gnome doesn't > provide one, but xclock works fine. But xclock looks stupid with > window decorations, you want it to blend with the background. > Using sawfish, it's trivial

AW: Theme patriation

2008-10-28 Thread Christoph Burgdorf
I would like to echo a demand fort hat in gnome. Choosing on which vDesktop an app would start is something I have been missing since I became familiar with the concept of vDesktops in Linux. I don't even think this is some geeky feature for expert users. People are changing in the way they in