[openbox] Vertical title bar for windows?

Brian Mattern rephorm at rephorm.com
Thu Jan 10 15:30:36 EST 2013


openbox uses pango for text layout, which according to
http://developer.gnome.org/pango/stable/pango-Vertical-Text.html 
supports vertical text.

To start, see obrender/font.c, obrender/render.c, openbox/framerender.c.

Brian


On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, zlatko kartelo wrote:

> I'd say you just include a lib which does text rotation. (?)
> 
> On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 17:06 +0200, Alexey Korop wrote:
> > Paul wrote on 08.01.2013 12:24:
> >  P> On Sunday, 06 January, 2013 at 20:14:13 GMT, zlatko kartelo
> >  P> wrote:
> >  ??>> Yes, but it's not that hard to read vertical words. And it
> >  ??>> makes not that big difference if the characters are rotated
> >  ??>> or not. I googled vertical text pictures, but looking
> >  ??>> around in real life gives a lot examples.
> >  P> Good point. I hadn't considered rotating the characters.
> >    Hmmm.... The engines, used in openbox, has text rotation?
> > 
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