new user comments/ colormap bug?/ Mapping keys?

[Olivier Fourdan]

Jay,

> SURELY A BUG:  I have my color map like I want it.  After a while,
> however, new xterms open with a white background and black text rather
> the black background that I want (I've been able to change the text
> color from stark white, but I'm living with that for now).  If I
> change the GTK theme engine and apply (I've changed from xfce to GTK
> and back again, changing either way seemed to fix the problem.  When
> it's "broken" the color maps in the panel's setup app all come up
> gray. 

No bug here, just a misunderstanding on your side, I guess. When "Apply
colors to all applications" is selected in Xfce setup panel (click on
the little painter panel next to the "quit" button on the toolbar to
access the control panel) then the Xresources are set according to the
theme selected, which affects Xaw apps such as xterm.

To avoid this, either add the proper resources to your $HOME/.Xdefauts
or simply unselect the option.
 
> BUG or RTFM/documentation: I've tried adding customizations to both
> ~/.xfce/xfwmrc and ~/.xfwmrc, but neither seems to do anything.

...Which is definitely not a good idea. Those files are overridden by
the panel so all customization in this are must be done thru the GUI.

> RTFM/documentation: I can't tell what the hell the eight color panels
> are in Setup app.  I have tooltips turned on, but they never come up
> here (or anywhere else).  I've figured out half of them by trial and
> error.  I remain confused.

Yes, that's a long awaited feature. Unfortunately I don't remember
either ;-)

> AESTHETIC: I'd like to see a list of *all* of the apps when I ALT-TAB,
> not just the one that I'd be changing to.  It's very helpful to see
> the whole list of open windows & then know that I need to hit N more
> tabs to get to the window that I want.  If alt-tab gave me the window
> that comes up when I mouse-3 on the desktop, I'd be happy.  Similarly,
> I'd like to be able to control tab to other desktops and alt-tab to
> list only apps on the current desktop.

This can be done with customization in $HOME/.xfce/xfwmrc

If this file is not present, simply copy the system wide default
/etc/X11/xfce/xfwmrc to $HOME/.xfce/xfwmrc and edit the later to make
your changes.
 
> AESTHETIC: I'd like mouse-2 and mouse-3 on the maximize window
> decoration to maximize horizonally and vertially.  I don't like
> pulling down a menu (worse I confuse horizontal and vertical about 25%
> of the time, but I doubt you could fix that).  Perhaps I could fix
> this if I could re-map keys.

Mouse bindings can be changed from .xfce/xfwmrc file.

Regarding maximization, the menu appears only if you keep the button
pressed for a while, other wise the default is full maximization (minus
the margins, as set in .xfce/xfwmrc)
 
Cheers, 
-- 
Olivier               <fourdan at xfce.org>            http://www.xfce.org
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