Re: Welcome !

on Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:37:17PM -0500, digger vermont wrote:

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> > xkbd does collapse ? Are you running it with the '-o' switch ?
> 
> No, no -o.  What I meant was not have the "bar" that xkbd collapses down
> to.  Visually I like the way it looks, the stacked bars, but it does
> take up space. At present xstroke is either blank or shows the mode it
> is in. ABC, 123, etc while activated.  I was thinking that perhaps
> another  mode that says xkbd. Thats kinda what I meant, but after
> explaining it I don't quite see it working.  Maybe just its own icon on
> the toolbar?
> 
It can work like this using monolauch; run it like this :

monolaunch -k /usr/share/xkbd/img/kbd.xpm xkbd xkbd

Tapping the keyboard icon will now kill the app ( -k ), rather than iconising
it. Try it and you'll see what I mean ...

> > 
> > > How about a full screen mode?
> > > 
> > How do you mean ?
> 
> Just plain disappear all the bars, tool, title, whatever. Touching the
> bottom screen edge for a moment restores it.  I think icewm has a hide
> mode for the tool bar.  It would be nice to have the extra height in
> landscape
> 

At some point I'll implement the the title bar so a double tap ( or
click or a side arrow ) will collapse it like the dock. 

I want to make matchbox pretty flexible. You can remove the titlebar
if you want ( and navigate via xstroke ) but matchbox in its default
configuration will be focused on being easy to use ( hopefully )as I
think this outweighs a few pixels of screen space.

Matthew