Re: efficiency using GIMP

yep thats a good one, i used to have a key to bring up or launch the
browser depending if its running already or not

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Sven Hartenstein
<[email protected]> wrote:
> * Esteban Soler <[email protected]>:
>> hi, what i would normally do is to have a desktop for the gimp, so i
>> have firefox o desktop one, eclipse on the second and gimp on the
>> third, also its a good idea to tell fluxbox to remember in what
>> desktop are the apps
>
> Same here. I also ask fluxbox to remember the window position.
>
> In addition I have the following in my ~/.fluxbox/keys file:
>
> Mod4 g :ExecCommand if wmctrl -l | grep "GIMP"; then wmctrl -a "GIMP";
> else gimp; fi
>
> Thus, no matter which desktop is active, when I hit Mod4-g fluxbox
> will take me to my "gimp desktop" and bring GIMP to the foreground.
>
> Sven
>
>
>> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Zhang Weiwu <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hello. I had been looking for an efficient way to work with multi-window
>> > applications like GIMP for long time. The special thing about gimp is
>> > its document interface, tool box and dialogs are separate windows
>> > belonging to the same application, and it make a lot of sense to be able
>> > to see them all on the screen.
>> >
>> > So, in order to work with GIMP efficiently I have to first carefully
>> > move all these windows to different places on the screen, not
>> > over-lapping each other. And when they are hidden behind another window
>> > (e.g. Firefox), if I call up one of these windows (e.g. call up the
>> > document), then all other windows should move to the same layer as the
>> > document window.
>> >
>> > Something similar was possible in enlightenment 1.6, called "Window
>> > grouping", however the "window group" in flux box means something
>> > different, the grouped window never appear together, just the opposite
>> > to enlightenment where grouped window always appear together.
>> >
>> > So, how do you use GIMP with fluxbox? do you suffer from the trouble of
>> > brining different windows of GIMP to the top as I do? How do you solve it?
>> >
>> > Best.
>> >
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Esteban Soler
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Mar del Plata
Argentina

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