Apps over the panel

[Kok, Auke]

Francois Audirac wrote:
> Diego Ongaro a écrit :
>> On Dec 17, 2007 6:20 AM, Francois Audirac <francois.audirac at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>>> So my questions are :
>>>
>>> 1) Can I forced with my panel fixed to be over the fourth panel ? And how ?
>>> http://webaf.net/spip/IMG/jpg/fixed-blocked-over.jpg
>>>
>>> 2) And if it not possible, how can I force the app to be launched in
>>> "place over" mode, without right-click on it ?
>> Maybe you could use full-screen mode instead. I think it's Alt+F11 by default.
> 
> Yes, it works with some apps but I've two problems :
> - I want to force it because the young children (sometimes 4 years)
> shouldn't hit every times Alt+F11. So how to force it at launch ?
> - Some app like those shown on this screen don't use full screen (it's
> written in tcl and don't work with Alt+F11). But other like gedit,
> abiword or gthumb work very fine.

you can enfore per-application resizing with 'devilspie'. As soon as a new window
is created devilspie can move it to any location you want and resize it to any siz
you wish.

Cheers,

Auke