-- B. Yuksel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Monday, 21 October 2002, 11:26 PM -0400): > > On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Lance Simmons wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:04:42PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > > > > > I gave ratpoision and ion a try last week, and really liked them both, > > > but found that when running a program like Gimp, that each window that > > > Gimp brings up for toolbox, etc becomes unnecessarily large (as in full > > > screen). Is there anyway to control that? > > > > Not that I know of. Some programs, like Gimp, make heavy use of the > > desktop metaphor. They're hard to use in ion or ratpoison (or at least > > I haven't figured out how to do it easily). What I do instead is start > > my X session with selectwm, using ratpoison as the default. If I need > > to use a wm that keeps the desktop metaphor, I can quickly exit > > ratpoison and switch to another wm without losing any of my windows. > > Once I'm done with that program, I exit the "desktop" wm, and go back to > > ratpoison. > > > One way to get around this problem is to use 'screen' with a desktop wm. > Keep all terminals and such in only one desktop wm window with 'screen', > and open another window for GIMP. Voila! you have a desktop wm, can use > GIMP and also have all the good deeds of ratpoison (ratpoison was > actually made to look like 'screen') I do exactly this -- I have screen running fullscreen on its own workspace in blackbox, and then use keybindings to switch to another workspace to use GUI apps (Phoenix browser, GIMP, and a few others).
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