On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:26:19PM +0530, Tahir Hashmi wrote:
GLUG Meeting on 13th July, 4pm at KReSIT, IIT Campus, Powai.
Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
Or simply try a better window manager like Sawfish, IceWM, WindowMaker! ;)
Well it was meant to be a friendly comment, no religious war implied! :)
As I said in the very beginning, I was indeed using Sawfish but it had a very erratic behavior. Often Alt-Tabbing would cycle rapidly through all windows and return to the one I started with. Keyboard shortcuts were executed but were also sent to the window that had focus which really made working in any text editor a pain. It also caused Xscreensaver to always reject the password for the first time :(
One thing I have done is to map the MS key to "Super" in X. By default it gets mapped to "Meta" but most applications assume the Alt key is "Meta". Now I have placed all my GUI shortcuts on the Super key, such as Super-M for mozilla, Super-G for gnome-terminal, Super-C for a console running mutt and so on ... apps like Xemacs are blissfully unaware of all this and continue to think the Alt key is the Meta key.
Don't know about the Alt-tabbing and Xscreensaver, both work fine on my Debian unstable.
Sameer.