Just tried it. It works great!Originally Posted by theine
Just tried it. It works great!Originally Posted by theine
OK, I'm game to try this, but I just need to know, will xfwm4 unroll, (or unshade) a window on focus? I don't want to have to click on it to get it to unroll. That one little niggling feature is all I really want out of a window manager. Pinning is nice, but not required, themes are great, but I can usually find an acceptable one, but auto unrolling (as I like to call it) I just have to have.
I believe xfwm can't do that.
Nope it can't. Great job on the how to, BTW. worked slick. I've decided that the best way to get what I want from KDE window manager, in Gnome, is to steal the KDE window manager. Kwin is now running under Gnome. Now I'm a happy camper, I just always thought that Kwin was so integrated into KDE it could'nt run under gnome, but so far so good.
Did setting that up require any special configuration? I'd like to see a screenshot, too, if you don't mind. It's very tempting.Originally Posted by HeartBT
It's nice but unfortunately it doesn't switch desktops on mouse scroll on empty desktop space. It works with mouse on desktop switcher, but not on desktop. Or I'm missing something...?
yes, I'd like to know how you did that as wellOriginally Posted by kairu0
I just tested it under XFCE by following the Enlightened XFCE HOWTO, substituting "enlightenment" for "kwin" is all. It worked very well. However, I quickly went back to xfwm because it added a good 5 seconds to my login time.Originally Posted by manicka
Yes, but heartBT says that it can be done in gnome...Originally Posted by kairu0
There is some playing around to do yet. LIke I cannot get the configuration screen up when I click on the configure window settings popup. The advanced works, and there have been no major problems yet since I've done it. I fear that configuration is going to have to be by hand, since I don't want to install all of KDE just for it's control applet, and that appears what I have to do. Other than that, it works.
Oh, apt-get install kwin
and then
nohup kwin --replace &
and you should be running kwin under gnome.
Just a reminder, I am a linux USER not programmer, expert, geek, anything. I stumble around in the dark till I bump into something that sparks. I know just enough outside a GUI to get me into trouble. This one just worked, and honestly I'm shocked it did, but I'm still playing with it.
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