X & Y Window co-ordinates... Able to disable?

Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: X & Y Window co-ordinates... Able to disable?
started by: Texarse

Posted by Texarse on April 24 2006,12:56

(I've used Linux before dual-booting Mandrake with XP, but gave it up because I couldn't get Norton's GoBack to work and keep Mandrake.)

I've only just discovered the joy that is DSL. I have it installed on a Sandisk Micro 256 meg USB drive and I'm very very happy with it.

With one small (and one not so small, but that's for another post) exception.

I dislike intensely the X:Y co-ordinates coming up on the screen when I move a window around.

Is there a way to disable this?

Posted by mikshaw on April 24 2006,13:28

/home/dsl/.fluxbox/init:

Code Sample

session.screen0.showwindowposition: false

You must reload the fluxbox configuration, or restart fluxbox, for init changes to work

Posted by pr0f3550r on April 24 2006,18:18

In an ideal world, all people would use jwm, not fluxbox.

Posted by mikshaw on April 24 2006,18:36

Are you TRYING to start a war? If you are, I'm ready...bring it on, Jwmmy!

Posted by lovdsl on April 25 2006,00:08

I'm curious
Why does jwm have a duplicate windows start button menu and a fluxbox right click menu

can the rightclick be altered to only favorites( fluxbox menu?) while the button remains standard (jwmrc)? how would that effect switching to fluxbox

Posted by mikshaw on April 25 2006,02:43

As far as I know, the right-click menu in DSL's jwm was hacked in, mainly just for the sake of consistency with the right-click behavior in fluxbox (people like me keep right-clicking when we forget which window manager we're using

).

It seems as though there is only one menu in JWM, so i'm not sure if what you are asking can be done without modifying the program itself. It might be possible, though. I'll look into it next time i load JWM.

I like the idea of having multiple menus from which to choose. I use hotkeys to launch my most-used programs, but there are still quite a few that are left as menu items. It would be nice to have a separate menu with 10-20 occasionally-used apps on it to prevent having to delve into multiple submenus. There is at least one small window manager that will let you use this behavior, but at the moment i can't recall what it was.
Of course it's possible to build your own menu with a lua script, but i'm not sure if it could be tied to a mouse click.

Posted by lovdsl on April 25 2006,03:23

Thanks..Sorry....I had thought the right click in jwm was actually the fluxbox menu
but now that I look it is just in fact a duplicate..and change will change both

.I use the drawer in fluxbox ..but had jwm on the dx2 and thought a good use for the second menu may be convert it to something similar...oh well

had not thought of hot keys though...thanks

would be interesting if the drawer could have more than one instance..or basically two drawers...anyway thanks

Posted by mikshaw on April 25 2006,04:00

You can start multiple instances of wmdrawer. You would need to create a second config file (.wmdrawerrc2, for example), and then start the second instance of wmdrawer with

Code Sample

wmdrawer -c $HOME/.wmdrawerrc2 &

Posted by lovdsl on April 25 2006,04:29

Oh..it can...that's great....I will use it straight away...thanks mikshaw

Posted by Texarse on April 25 2006,08:11

Thanks Milkshaw, it worked.

But, is there an equivalent command for JVM?

And, at the risk of re-igniting an (obviously) smouldering war, which is the better window manager to use? Fluxbox or JVM?

Texaco van der Aarse

Posted by mikshaw on April 25 2006,14:18

The JWM documenation says that this can be done by adding coordinates="off" to the MoveMode and ResizeMode tags in .jwmrc, but it seems to be a new feature that doesn't work in DSL.

The better window manager to use is always left to the user to decide. JWM is more familiar to Windows users, and i think it's a little smaller than fluxbox. Personally I've been experimenting with many window managers over the last five years, and I still prefer Fluxbox to any other.

Posted by doobit on April 25 2006,14:39

I like JWM becaus it uses two less processes to operate than Fluxbox. The apps are noticeably faster in JWM over Fluxbox. I also like the way the Windows lock to full screen.

However, I like fluxbox because you can make it look really pretty and the tabs are a great feature. I also like that you can customize it so easily.

Posted by lovdsl on April 25 2006,17:31

I like fluxbox as it was easy to customize. I never used the start button in windows, I used a pop up freeware menu, drawer is similar. so jwm was not familiar just oddly different with duplicate menus.

Mikshaw..what do I do with the drawer code..not haveing luck..thanks

adding...got it.. [exec] (WMDrawer) {/opt/wmdrawer/usr/bin/wmdrawer -c $HOME/.wmdrawerrc2 && wmdrawer}....thanks