payasam Posted April 13, 2005 Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 Have just installed XPad 1.1.3 on 10.1. Had it on 10.0 earlier. Even if I put in just two lines in a note ("pad"), its height remains three lines or more. Second, is there any way to keep it from showing up in the taskbar? My other problem is that I *still* do not know how to make programs start at boot-up. I assume there is something like the "Start-up" folder of Wingoes, only I haven't found it yet. Help appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted April 13, 2005 Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 In KDE, create a link to the application on the desktop - right-click-> create new..., etc. Then move the link to ~/.kde/Autostart/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted April 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 Thanks, Coverup. Will try. But despite the years, I haven't got the hang of this GUI business, in any OS, and am comfortable only at the command prompt ("terminal" in Linux-speak?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted April 14, 2005 Report Share Posted April 14, 2005 well in that case just go to ~/.kde/Autostart and do 'ln -s /usr/bin/xpad' (or whatever the xpad executable is called). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted April 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2005 Coverup, with the help of Nautilus I managed to do as you said. Adamw, I don't need to follow your instructions now, but I shall jot them down for when I do need them. I'd like to thank you both. XPad now starts at boot-up, but it makes it rather too obvious that that's what it's doing. A little bright yellow blob shows up on the Kool Bloo splash screen. Most upsetting. I still don't know how to keep notes from taking up space in the taskbar, but I expect that's an XPad problem, not a Mandrake one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted April 14, 2005 Report Share Posted April 14, 2005 I've got just the thing for you - it's called Devil's Pie. The application could implement this functionality itself, but if it doesn't, Devil's Pie is a great way to do things. It's basically a window management tool, it lets you have all sorts of control over what apps do with their windows. http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie is its home page; I think it's packaged for MDV, so check contrib for a devilspie (or something) package, but I'm not sure. If not, it should build and install easily from source. (I'm assuming you use GNOME, here. Your mention of Nautilus suggests it.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted April 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2005 No, Adamw, I don't use Gnome -- I just happen to have read all of Jules Verne rather too long ago, and I find Nautilus the least cluttered of all the file submarines available in Mandrake. Devil's Pie sounds good. Juicy, I mean. I haven't so far built anything from source, just used RPM and TAR.GZ stuff. But I expect I can give it a shot. Thanks for the home page. If the thing does what you say it does, it should be pretty useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted April 15, 2005 Report Share Posted April 15, 2005 What do you use? Devil's Pie works with metacity (the GNOME wm) but I don't know if it works with other WMs. If you're on KDE, kwin may have its own ways of doing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted April 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2005 I'm on KDE, Adamw. It isn't really a problem -- I just *like* to grumble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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