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found wmdrawer on dockapps.org. i found the patch at spiritisdigital.com

speaking of the slit, i found a nice little dockapp called wmdrawer that works as a nice substitution for my not-always-on-top gnome panel. its basically the same thing as the drawer applet for the gnome panel but it runs in the slit. its pretty configurable and it can easily be made to look nice. last night i found a patch that opens the drawer when my mouse moves over it (normally you have to click to open the drawer), so it works even faster.

for kde, go to the fonts section in the control center. for gnome, edit /etc/profile.d/gtk2.sh so that the last line in the case statement reads: GDK_USE_XFT="0" to turn it off. if it equals 1, aa is turned on.

oh yeah, i remember having that problem in 8.2 (you're right, it should apply to 9.0 also). if i remember correctly, all you had to do was delete the .desktop file in you home directory since it overrode the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file.

http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docbook/en/.../html/c598.html now i'm kinda confused, hehe. what do you mean by switching apps?

edit the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file so the first line reads the window manager you want to use

my problem isn't that the gnome panel isn't on all desktops, its that it isn't "always on top." i asked about this on the gnome forum and on the fluxbox forum but to no success. i wouldn't run the panel in the slit either because i don't want my slit to be always on top. also, i don't think either the gnome-panel or kicker run in withdrawn mode anyway. yeah i know, i'd like to use a rox panel but that goes across the whole screen. with the gnome-panel, i don't use an edge panel, but a sliding panel that holds seven launchers. i switched the size down to 24 pixels, but i still get overlap from some apps. fluxbox starts up slower, but i don't notice any further a penality in performance

its possible for c/c++ to be compiled with any standards compliant c/c++ compiler. however, many compilers add "enhancements" to allow extra functionality at the expense of portability. for example, gcc allows a // to denote a comment in c even though it technically isn't part of the c standard (// is standard in c++ though). on top of that, if a programmer writes specifically with one audience (ie, window users) in mind, the program can get even less portable. in this case, i believe that this is probably the issue. i took a look that the source myself and i'm positive that its intended for windows. you could try to throw all the files into a kdevelop project, but i doubt you'll get it to work. this should go without saying, but i could be wrong, so correct me as needed.

i have no idea what's wrong, but that's a pretty nice sounding app, i'm gonna grab it and see if i can get it to work

i completely forgot about that forum. i'll make a post there too. that's correct anyways, i tried messing around with the --sm options and none of them seem to work. i'll admit though, i'm not really sure what those options are looking for.

is it possible to have my gnome panel always on top with fluxbox?

http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=756

you have to add a file to /etc/X11/wmsession.d. just look at the other files in that directory for info on how to make the file, its pretty self explanatory.

assuming you're using windowmaker, all you have to do is start your dockapps and arrange them in the order you want. then right click on each dockapp and go to settings. there should be an option there to have the app start when window maker starts. <edit> if you're using fluxbox, you edit ~/.fluxbox/slitlist

try going to tools -> options -> view and lower the number underneath the screen font antialiasing checkbox. that may help your visibility problem, but then again aa doesn't look to good with small fonts either

you can add the remember patch from http://bugfactory.org/~gav/fluxbox and it can autostart apps for you as well as remember things like window position and size. all you have to do is add a submenu called startup and any program you put in there will autostart. i think the man page has more info on that.

nope, that ain't it. permissions for ~ checked out ok, any other ideas?

i think if you right click on the description window, you can select to have a more detailed description and it'll show the source, changelog, etc

i'm guessing that one of those versions is from the install cd source and the other one is from the ftp source you just set up. i can't recall if you can tell the source repository of an rpm with urpmi, but i know you can see it if you run rpmdrake.

i don't remember. i had to this myself a few months, but don't recall having any problems with it. i guess you could try it initially without a cd in the drive or with disc 2 in the drive, etc. also, make sure /mnt/cdrom is the correct name for the device you're using

sometimes, for seemingly no reason, when i try to start kde it complains about me not having ownership of ~/.ICEauthority and refuses to start. if i do a 'ls -l' on it, it shows that root has ownership. so i manually change ownership back to my user account and proceed as normal. why does this happen and what can i do to fix this? if it helps, gnome doesn't start either but fluxbox and windowmaker seem unaffected

urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable:///mnt/cdrom

mozilla handles aa on its own, so it shouldn't be affected

you should see some shading around the antialiased fonts. you can see it better with xmag

you can play around with settings in /etc/X11/Xftconfig to adjust font sizes for aa, but that's not really what my problem was. the small, un-antialiased fonts were the only ones that looked good for me. that's actually what got me thinking that i had to disable aa in mozilla.