need debate: Window title on the left side

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Sat Jan 13 14:45:11 CET 2007


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Hi

Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote:
> When cascading Windows, I would like to make it horizontally instead of
> vertically, because most documents are more "high" than they are "wide".
> Cascading vertically kills me height.
> 
> The window title would be then written DownTop (if English). It might be
> very uncomfortable for some other vertical language, I dont know.
> 
> That way I could cascad more windows when I need to.
> I saw such a thing on some screenshot, and I did not bookmark it, I dont
> even remember what WM it was about (fvwm, I think, but cant assume)
> 
> - Is it manageable via a theme?

Nope.

> - Suppose it is not possible to set it via the setting panel, is it hard
> to hardcode it just for my installation?

Quite so. Of course, it's doable, since pango can now write vertically,
but the changes would be quite deep and certainly not trivial in the
existing code.

Cheers,
Olivier.
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