A Wacky Idea...

Biju Chacko botsie at xfce.org
Fri Jul 2 06:43:03 CEST 2004


On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 22:28:02 -0400
Marv Boyes <marvboyes at att.net> wrote:

> Biju Chacko wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 20:54:14 -0400
> > Marv Boyes <marvboyes at att.net> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Maybe it's lunacy. It makes some sense to me, but others may not
> >think>so. At any rate, it's something I've never really seen before:
> >windows>that shade SIDEWAYS.
> > 
> > 
> > I think you should be able to do this with E or sawfish. I happen to
> > like a related feature: vertical captions on the left side of
> > windows, or captions on the bottom of windows.
> > 
> > However, both of our ideas are not really mainstream, so I really
> > don't think they would fit in with the overall philosophy of xfwm4. 
> 
> It's not that I was necessarily expecting it to materialize in the
> Xfce project; this is just the only display-related list to which I
> belong. :) Honestly, I was more interested in seeing if it was
> anything that anyone but me might see some utility in.
> 
>  From the responses I've read, I see that the answer is yes-- and no.
>  ;)

No the answer is "NO -- do it with E or sawfish". You ought to be able
to use sawfish as the WM with the rest of xfce.

-- b

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