Re: Howto create an overlay window ?

Daniel Maturana <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.ratpoison.devel
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It seems Ratpoison isn't well suited for the 'PIP' functionality, since it's
a tiling window manager and the PIP doesn't really respect that. You can
have a window be 'on top', like dialog windows, but little control over its
positioning, as far as I can tell. Using 'unmanage' is useful to tell
Ratpoison to not control a window, but it won't help with the overlapping. I
can't really think of a simple solution using ratpoison - it might be easier
to use another window manager that supports floating windows (like dwm) or
to perform the PIP functionality directly in whatever software you're using.
The latter seems the way to go if you need fine control.
D.

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Helmut Auer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello List
>>
>> I'm using ratpoison as wm for my Gen2VDR multimedia distribution.
>> Now there's a need for a small overlay window to implement PIP (picture in
>> picture) functionality.
>> Is there anyway to realize this with ratpoison ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>
> No one an idea howto realize this ?
>
>
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