Daniel Stonier wrote:
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:00:03 -0400, Smoke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Sunday, Oct 10, 2004 at 18:51, Kim Woelders wrote:
GNOME doesn't handle virtual root windows (2., 3., ... desktop)
properly. E 0.16.7 has a feature that makes things seem to work,
try: $ eesh -e "hints xroot root"
Well, that solved my problem :) I'm not using gnome, though, just
e. How come e doesn't do this by default? Oh, and will i have to
run this from my .xinitrc, or will e remember this setting?
Maybe because its new. There were still some problems on my machine.
I have two "multiple desktops" - labelled 1, 2 here for convenience
and am using transparent backgrounds on Eterm and gdesklets. With the
root hints mentioned above, both picked up the proper backgrounds
upon switching to a different desktop - great! But
Enlightenment (0.16.7.1-1)
gdesklets: Failed to persist on either desktop. Eterm (0.9.2-4):
Failed to persist on desktop 1.
i.e. failing to persist equates to the background dropping back to a
blank background (pale blue for gdesklets and black for Eterm) after
about 20 seconds. After failing if you switched desktops and came
back again it would redraw with the background but then fail to
persist after another 20 seconds.
OK, there was a bug in the "hints xroot" feature related to timing out
unviewable backgrounds.
The problem can be postponed (fwiw) by setting a large timeout in the
"Background Settings" dialog.
It should be fixed now in CVS, and the setting is now saved.
This setting is not enabled by default because it is wrong to do it.
In E it is possible to view multiple desktops simultaneously. The xroot
hack prevents the application "transparency" to work simultaneously on
multiple desktops. Try placing transparent apps on two different
desktops and see what happens when the dragbar is moved.
Eterm should work properly if either using version 0.9.3 (CVS) or
compiling E with --enable-hints-gnome.
/Kim
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