Re: Seeking help with intended matchbox "misuse"

Hi;

on Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 05:44:46PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> took a little longer now. But you probably weren't idling around waiting
> just for 
> me :-)
> 
> 1. libwnck    -- Seems this was a premature reaction by me. Sorry for that.
> It
>                       came out that my modifications (which included
> commenting
>                       out about the entire body of the
> main_client_reparent() function)
>                       broke that functionality. By (accidentally, *ahem*)
> wiping my
>                       work I had to start over, did it right that time, and
> had it working.
>                       So your EWMH stuff is in perfect working order. Thanks
> for it :-)

Cool, Im glad it started working for you. 

> 2. configure -- Taking out "--enable-keyboard" indeed helped. What I did
> notice
>                       though, is that when you enable building with startup
> notification,
>                       it says "No" in the summary. But when building, you
> can see -I's
>                       and -l's scrolling by which include the startup
> notification stuff.
>                       Probably just a nuisance.
> 

Yeah, there was some rubbish I put in the configure.ac file :/, Im pretty
sure I fixed this in 0.5 full release. The battle with autotools
continues another day ;-)

> 3. focus       -- One thing I couldn't quite figure out: how do you have the
> window
>                       manager (a) recognize a specific window (should that
> kinda stuff
>                       always be done through hints?) and then (b) set the
> input focus
>                       to that window?
> 

yeah basically - there are various hints for requesting keyboard/window
focus. Poke around the matchbox source for anything wm_activate() or
client->show(). To be honest I think the focusing in matchbox could do
with some tweaking. I plan for 0.6 to clean up some of the 'event
paths' in the src and hopefully sort this at the same time. 

> Overall I'm very grateful and impressed by your work. 

Thank you :-)

>I've looked into
> nearly
> two dozen window managers for this, half of which were nothing but unusable,
> the other half of which did mostly the same thing. I got to admit they were
> vary-
> ing in bloat though :-)
> 

Yeah, metacity is my fave ( for desktop anyway ;-) )

> If you're interested, there's some screenshots of the interface I'm (trying
> to :] ) 
> doing online at http://awareness.dnsalias.net/photoalbum/RealDeal/index.php.
> The third from the bottom up shows best the current status, although it's
> still
> running on a hacked aewm without EWMH support, so the panel was not working
> then. Should probably put up a new shot now.
> 

Looks very nice - whats it for ? some kind of kiosk thingy ?

Many thanks

  --Matthew