On Jan 30, 2008 10:46 AM, Jon Nettleton <jon nettleton gmail com> wrote:
Thanks for the heads up. I am not directly working with the Eeedora
project. I am really most interested in getting the most functional low
resolution desktop as possible. Xfce is fine, however I find that
desktop environment a bit restrictive. Here is the environment I am
building/using right now on my eeepc ( by the way this is > 2GB's ). I
know I know, but I am more interested in functionality than space.
1) Devilspie to better customize size and position of windows. Overly
large windows are still problematic and I am trying methods to fix this.
I am thinking maybe scaling the window with a compositing manager might
be the way to go. Oh and some kind of gui to configure devilspie, it is
said that one doesn't exist yet. I am thinking angelcake would be a
good name.
Except that it doesn't do compositing yet, I recommend XMonad for your
WM (or any other tiling window manager). On such a small screen, it
should solve alot of difficulties you have in placing windows in a
reasonable space. There is no gui to configure it either, but you
have the same barrier both ways. At least this way you're not using
something as inelegant as devilspie.