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slenkar · Joined: 10 Jul 2009 Posts: 228

Is there a window manager that has the scroll bar on the right,
up against the side of the screen?
When I put my mouse on the right side of the screen it turns into a resizer but I want it to be on the scrollbar.

Also when I use wmswitcher it never works, Im always returned to JWM.

WHen I kill X and try to start a WM manually it never works either, the applications like firefox have no scrollbars or anything

I installed yeahwm and sithwm
I kill X and type in xwin yeahwm but then I get no window manager at all.

I went to the puppy wiki that says 'how to change your window manager' but every single link on that page is dead

musher0 · Posted: Fri 03 Aug 2012, 23:44 Post subject: Re: need a window manager that...

Hello, slenkar.

I'll try to answer a few of your questions, in no particular order.

slenkar · Joined: 10 Jul 2009 Posts: 228

1)y'know how in Windows when an app e.g. web browser is maximised,

the scrollbar extends all the way to the right side of the screen,

in puppy it doesnt, I know its just a little thing but it annoys me Twisted Evil

2)the latest slacko
5.3 I think

3)he might be angry at me Crying or Very sad

4) XFCE does what I want but most links are dead

)

musher0 · Posted: Sat 04 Aug 2012, 13:45 Post subject:

Hi, slenkar.

1) Never seen that bug before. Unless... your actual monitor (the physical hardware) does not have the right parameters for width. Your software image may be some pixels too wide for the actual width of your monitor. Have you tried doing an automatic resizing of your monitor? There's usually a series of buttons on the front of the monitor to parameter it correctly.

2) Very good derivative, thoroughly tested.

3) I doubt that, members here are quite civilized, we don't keep grudges! Very Happy

4) For an xfce puppy, please see http://saluki-linux.com/ and
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=368880749&t=73687
You won't regret it. There should be all sorts of links there.

slenkar · Joined: 10 Jul 2009 Posts: 228

thanks do you think I could install saluki from puppylinux or do I have to burn a CD?

musher0 · Posted: Sat 04 Aug 2012, 23:39 Post subject:

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4786 Location: Kingwood, TX

musher0 · Posted: Sat 20 Oct 2012, 16:22 Post subject:

Interesting. I didn't know that.

What does "PITA"refer to, please ?

Thanks in advance.

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 2681 Location: South Australia

PITA=Pain in the A**

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4786 Location: Kingwood, TX

gtk never considered that you wouldn't have a wm, so some dialogs just don't allow you to type in them because certain gtk widgets are "windowless" to improve responsiveness (the X server doesn't have to track events for them) ... what ends up happening is, you can't type in some entry boxes because you can't truly activate them.

for example, to get the screenshot I added:
& sleep 20 && DISPLAY=:0 mtpaint -s
to the end of the seamonkey bits, but when I went to save the image, I couldn't type in the save as dialog, but I could pick a previously saved image by clicking on it.

to answer the original question, most wms have the border set to at least 1 so users can click on them to resize. You can set the border width to 0 in jwm for the desired result, but then you will need to right click on the title bar to resize.

musher0 · Posted: Sun 21 Oct 2012, 00:05 Post subject:

Ah, I see. Thanks.

(And to smokey for the lesson in English vocabulary!) Smile