January 30, 2009 – 12:00 pm
In GNOME bug 557921 the idea is raised of Metacity supporting sound effects.
Photo: © Judy Baxter, cc-by-nc-sa.
January 30, 2009 – 1:17 am
When I posted yesterday’s squib, I really didn’t expect six people to say they’d use it. Someone plaintively left a message on the bug saying “Please make it possible for devilspie to add this feature!” Well, it is possible for devilspie or any other addon to add this feature, and for that reason [...]
January 29, 2009 – 12:00 pm
In GNOME bug 310842 the suggestion is raised that there should be an option to require all keybindings to be prefixed with a particular keystroke, to minimise the number of keystrokes which can’t be used by applications– there would be only one keystroke, the prefix, that was globally grabbed. Such a system would be [...]
January 28, 2009 – 12:00 pm
In GNOME bug 152661 someone is asking for the ability to move in a particular direction from a given window (as opposed to from a given workspace). So you could move to the closest window to the right of the focussed window, for example. Apparently FVWM has this feature. (I assume this would be [...]
January 27, 2009 – 5:55 pm
Your chronicler is once again reminded to overhaul this script. Those who are reading this from other projects– would you be interested in a copy when it’s more polished?
Bugs
As ever, feel free to join these conversations.
GNOME bug 171174 Xephyr crash– is this still a problem?
GNOME bug 437910 option to switch resize/menu keys, [...]
January 27, 2009 – 12:00 pm
GNOME bug 504729 suggests that switching with alt-tab, while using compositing, is too slow. This is because all the images of the windows are scaled on the client side before the window is displayed.
There are two possible answers to this problem.
Firstly, we can check for key release while scaling is happening, and if [...]
January 26, 2009 – 6:44 pm
Quick on the heels of our previous post on this matter, and Iain’s explanation of how it can be done in an external process and spawned on a keypress, malept points out Skippy, a program to do just that. However, it appears to be unmaintained. Does anyone fancy picking up the reins? Possibly there should [...]
January 26, 2009 – 12:00 pm
In GNOME bug 502491 someone is asking for an effect like Exposé on OS X. Iain, who wrote the compositor and ought to know, believes it would be better done as a separate program. There was an attempt to do this a while back, called Expocity, but nothing much came of it. Does this [...]
January 26, 2009 – 2:48 am
Your chronicler attempted to produce this version of the Metacity Journal using the old script; however, it had not run for so long that it listed hundreds of changes. Therefore it was largely pared down by hand, and only the changes from the last few days have been mentioned. If you’d like to [...]
January 25, 2009 – 11:05 pm
True to my promise, here’s the first bug/squib of the day.
In GNOME bug 567757 someone is asking for live previews in the alt-tab window. I can’t think why this would actually be useful, as opposed to pretty, and it sounds like a lot of work and a source of new bugs. I am therefore [...]
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