Re: RealDeal patch to Matchbox 0.50

Simply make your border windows panels ( TYPE_DOCK ), that will
achieve the effect you want with no patches and it will work with
Xrandr .

If you want to resize your 'viewport' , just resize one of these side
panel windows. 

  -- Matthew

on Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 02:07:40PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> > So if I understand correctly, what you want is to be able to define a
> > border around all managed windows where the desktop window 'shows' 
> > through?
> 
> Yes. "desktop" should also be set in quotation marks though, since it is not
> what one would normally perceive as a desktop. It's just what's technically
> closest.
> 
> It _could_ have been done as a theme if the "desktop" window would just 
> tell Matchbox where to place the "viewport" on startup. But key is that the 
> "desktop" window should at any given point in time be able to ask Matchbox
> for resizing/moving the other windows. An example of this could be when
> the user changes the screen resolution by way of XRandR. In that case the 
> "desktop"  window's widgets would resize, thus altering the viewport's size 
> and requiring applications to be resized as well so they don't cover 
> the "desktop" or show the white space the viewport is.
> 
> Sorry, it's hard to explain. English is not my native tongue...
> If any of what I said above was unclear, I'd offer you a second 
> look at 'http://awareness.dnsalias.net/photoalbum/RealDeal'.
> On the second picture from top you can see what happens when
> the screen resolution is modified, but the application windows
> (in this case an XTerm) are not resized accordingly.
> 
> Thanks,
> - Raphael
> 
> -- 
> NIETS IS ONMOGELIJK
>