I'm really enjoying using compiz on my desktop. It has a certain tastiness that can't be denied.
However, there's a few things that I'm missing and can't seem to address.
1. I had set up gnome-terminal to launch using <CTRL>+<ALT>+<T> through System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts. This shortcut no longer works (since enabling compiz) and the option no longer appears in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog.
2. In metacity, I had customised the buttons on the title bar as follows: close,maximize,minimize:menu (inside gconf setting apps/metacity/general/button_layout). I now have the default button layout and can't seem to see anyway of changing the button layout.
(Yes, the button layout I want is very much the same as on MacOSX. I'm not a fan, but I do think that they got this right, ironically because all the menu items are in the same place on the window, which is strange because MacOSX put these menus up the top, not in the window.)
Can someone help me to address these two issues, or do I need to file bug reports.
R.
Rodd Clarkson wrote:
I'm really enjoying using compiz on my desktop. It has a certain tastiness that can't be denied.
However, there's a few things that I'm missing and can't seem to address.
- I had set up gnome-terminal to launch using <CTRL>+<ALT>+<T> through
System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts. This shortcut no longer works (since enabling compiz) and the option no longer appears in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog.
- In metacity, I had customised the buttons on the title bar as
follows: close,maximize,minimize:menu (inside gconf setting apps/metacity/general/button_layout). I now have the default button layout and can't seem to see anyway of changing the button layout.
(Yes, the button layout I want is very much the same as on MacOSX. I'm not a fan, but I do think that they got this right, ironically because all the menu items are in the same place on the window, which is strange because MacOSX put these menus up the top, not in the window.)
Can someone help me to address these two issues, or do I need to file bug reports.
this won't help solve your problems but I also have some issues (missing features) in compiz that where in metacity: 1) always on top does not work (option greyed out) 2) no drag and drop in the pager 3) rightclick move to workspace does not exist
R.
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 12:53 -0500, Craig Thomas wrote:
dragoran wrote:
Rodd Clarkson wrote: 2) no drag and drop in the pager
I'd add: 2a) the pager only goes forward (alt-tab) and not also backwards (alt-tab-shit)
Hmmm, you're right, but this might be a feature.
I noticed that the windows reorder to that alt-tab goes the the last window used then the window before that and so one. So to switch between the last window used and the current window you just have to alt-tab, instead of using alt-tab and alt-shift-tab.
Of course this might have been the case before compiz too so it may not have changed at all.
R.
Rodd Clarkson wrote:
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 12:53 -0500, Craig Thomas wrote:
dragoran wrote:
Rodd Clarkson wrote: 2) no drag and drop in the pager
I'd add: 2a) the pager only goes forward (alt-tab) and not also backwards (alt-tab-shit)
Hmmm, you're right, but this might be a feature. I noticed that the windows reorder to that alt-tab goes the the last window used then the window before that and so one. So to switch between the last window used and the current window you just have to alt-tab, instead of using alt-tab and alt-shift-tab.
Of course this might have been the case before compiz too so it may not have changed at all.
alt-shift-tab just goes backwards in the pager without desktop effects.
So if I am cycling through the list of apps too fast and miss what I want, I can go back with alt-shit-tab, without going all the way around again. I'm not talking about the ordering of the apps _in_ the pager at all, just being able to go backwards.
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 20:45 -0500, Craig Thomas wrote:
Rodd Clarkson wrote:
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 12:53 -0500, Craig Thomas wrote:
dragoran wrote:
Rodd Clarkson wrote: 2) no drag and drop in the pager
I'd add: 2a) the pager only goes forward (alt-tab) and not also backwards (alt-tab-shit)
Hmmm, you're right, but this might be a feature. I noticed that the windows reorder to that alt-tab goes the the last window used then the window before that and so one. So to switch between the last window used and the current window you just have to alt-tab, instead of using alt-tab and alt-shift-tab.
Of course this might have been the case before compiz too so it may not have changed at all.
alt-shift-tab just goes backwards in the pager without desktop effects.
So if I am cycling through the list of apps too fast and miss what I want, I can go back with alt-shit-tab, without going all the way around again. I'm not talking about the ordering of the apps _in_ the pager at all, just being able to go backwards.
Mea Culpa, if I had've stopped to think, this would have been a no-brainer.
I've started filing bug reports against compiz in the hepe that some of these things (and others I've found) will be fixed.
see:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213158 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213159 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213161 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213162
R.
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 15:41 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 20:45 -0500, Craig Thomas wrote:
Rodd Clarkson wrote:
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 12:53 -0500, Craig Thomas wrote:
dragoran wrote:
Rodd Clarkson wrote: 2) no drag and drop in the pager
I'd add: 2a) the pager only goes forward (alt-tab) and not also backwards (alt-tab-shit)
Hmmm, you're right, but this might be a feature. I noticed that the windows reorder to that alt-tab goes the the last window used then the window before that and so one. So to switch between the last window used and the current window you just have to alt-tab, instead of using alt-tab and alt-shift-tab.
Of course this might have been the case before compiz too so it may not have changed at all.
alt-shift-tab just goes backwards in the pager without desktop effects.
So if I am cycling through the list of apps too fast and miss what I want, I can go back with alt-shit-tab, without going all the way around again. I'm not talking about the ordering of the apps _in_ the pager at all, just being able to go backwards.
Mea Culpa, if I had've stopped to think, this would have been a no-brainer.
I've started filing bug reports against compiz in the hepe that some of these things (and others I've found) will be fixed.
see:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213158 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213159 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213161 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213162
R.
No xinerama support: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208417
Although it looks like if it's to get into RHEL5, this might get addressed soon.
No bring window to front keybinding: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204129
tjb
On 10/30/06, Rodd Clarkson rodd@clarkson.id.au wrote:
Hmmm, you're right, but this might be a feature.
I noticed that the windows reorder to that alt-tab goes the the last window used then the window before that and so one. So to switch between the last window used and the current window you just have to alt-tab, instead of using alt-tab and alt-shift-tab.
Of course this might have been the case before compiz too so it may not have changed at all.
That's always been the behaviour of alt-tab, as far as I remember. Alt-shift-tab is for when you need to switch to the oldest used window or if you accidentally go too far when alt-tab'ing and want to go back one.
n0dalus.