[openbox] Dock Level?

Ben Jansens ben at orodu.net
Sun Nov 23 13:27:36 EST 2003


On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 08:04:15AM -0500, Kacper Wysocki wrote:
> >> I really like my gkrellm dockapps.  And bbrun.  Would you elaborate
> >on
> >
> >Gkrellm works just fine without being a "dock app" now by making
> >itself a
> >"dock type window". Its in the prefs for gkrellm2, and is more
> >functional
> >and preferable in aboute every way imaginable :)
> 
> I see what you mean about the slit/dock sucking, but maximising when  
> gkrellm is set to "dock type window" will either
> - hide gkrellm from view, thus making its constant system monitoring  
> capabilities temporarily useless, or
> - maximise some of the application under gkrellm, which annoyingly  
> obscures a possibly essential part of the application.

Its up to gkrellm to set a strut if that would be desirable. Then apps won't
maximize over it. Consider sending in a patch for this :)

> Same thing with the Licq docker. There are some apps that one just  
> cannot want to maximise over.
> 
> It's entirely possible that there's something I'm missing here, but  
> that's how it behaves on my system. Feel free to smack upside the head  
> if I'm wrong.

To each their own i suppose :)

Ben
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