Re: F9 for Eeepc

[Douglas McClendon <dmc fedora filteredperception org>]

Jon Nettleton wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:03 -0500, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
> > 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.
>
> The Metacity in Rawhide does compositing now.  That codebase with a few
> patches I am working on works quite nicely.  I am not sure why you
> consider devilspie inelegant.  It just hangs out and matches windows and
> places them if you tell it to.  Very simple and straightforward.

Devilspie looks interesting.  Looks like a nice lisp wrapper for stuff I 
had been doing myself with wmctrl.  So maybe wmctrl is worth looking at 
as well.

-dmc