Re: [RP] is this against the philosophy?

[Aaron Griffin]

On 2/4/06, FEJF <address@hidden> wrote:
> I agree too - but till they fix it, it would be good to have a workaround...
> As i ran into the same problem i wrote the "manual.transient
> patch" ( http://ratpoison.elektrubadur.se/FEJFPatch ). I couldn't use some
> apps which auto-minimize themself while Ratpoison auto-maximizes them when
> they get minimized -> endless-loop. The manual transient windows are handled
> by Ratpoison (I wanted to be able to switch to them) but arent't maximized.
>
> Aaron: Perhaps you can save your work and live with my patch ;) or as a second
> option use my patch and extend it with resizing capabilities (missed that
> once in my patch - and that wasn't enough to implement it on my own...)

Hmm, I recall using your patches, but I couldn't get manualtransient
to work the way I wanted... could you provide a usage pattern so I can
retry it and see if I'm just doing something retarted?

> > Gimp has it's jillion windows - suckage.
>
> I configured my gimp to have all functions in 1 window and the pictures in a
> second window. you can put the gimp window in a frame on the left and the
> picture window on the other frame. works like a charme :) (screenshot
> available on my homepage: http://www.fejf.de )

Yup, I do the same thing:
http://phraktured.net/gallery/albums/screenshots/screenshot-20051210191723.png

Still, it's irritating to have to split and resize like that for a
quick gimp-ing job.

I guess I could probably save a frameset and restore it when I start the Gimp.