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Posted: **Sat 28 Jan 2012, 13:31**

Does anybody here remember Mark Ulrich (aka MU, of NYPup fame) mentioning a fix for oroborus, you know, the annoyance it is that you have to click on the background to get some programs to appear after launch in oroborus.

I had the same problem but fixed it by playing with rox settings.

Do you have the - override window manager unclicked
and
clicked - pass all backdrop mouse clicks to window manager in rox's options (compatibility)?
i like to use xsri set a background.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 7f12775ab3

Posted: **Sun 29 Jan 2012, 18:55**

Thanks, harii, trying that.

Posted: **Thu 22 Mar 2012, 21:42**

Hello.

Here is a variant of the oroborus theme. It's made so the title bar disappears when program not in focus. Derived from the observation that when a program is not in focus, you never use its control buttons.

This theme can be used in conjonction with the parameter

borderless_windows=[the list of programs you wish to be borderless here, separated by commas (no space in between)]

in your /root/.oroborusrc-personal file to unclutter your screen a little.

See examples below. The scheme used in the pictures is "brick".

Important: the attached tar file has to be unpacked in directory:
/usr/share/oroborus/themes

Enjoy!

Posted: **Wed 28 Mar 2012, 05:58**

Hi, guys!

Just found this on http://ostatic.com/wmtile, which adds tiling to oroborus and other small wm's. Please see attached illustration.

If you don't like full-width, as you may know, you can resize any oroborus window with Alt-Shift-arrow (any arrow!)

Enjoy!

P.S. A cascade utility for oroborus windows would be nice too, but I came back empty-handed from my Internet search... Any leads, people?

Posted: **Thu 29 Mar 2012, 00:55**

@ musher0
EDIT--- they must use different names
debian uses tile not wmtile?
is it the same app?

how dose it compare to Tile 0.7.2?

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# tile --help
tile 0.7.2

Usage: tile [OPTIONS]...
              --help            Print help and exit
   -V         --version         Print version and exit
   -d         --dump            Dump run-time config and exit
              --verbose         Increase Verbosity (up to 5 times)

   -h         --horizontal      Horizontal Placement
   -v         --vertical        Vertical Placement (default)

   -pSTRING   --profile=STRING  Window Manager Profile Name (default='Default')

   -m         --win-workspace   Enable multi-desktop _WIN_WORKSPACE support (oroborus, fluxbox, etc) (default=off)
   -w         --net-wm          Enable multi-desktop _NET_*_DESKTOP support (GNOME, NET WM, etc) (default=off)

Somehow you can get bordeless tile and cascade windows too?
Might have to check jemimah's Fluppy thread for that ?

Posted: **Thu 29 Mar 2012, 04:36**

Hello, harii4.

It has to be the same file, look :

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tile --help
tile 0.7.0

Usage: tile [OPTIONS]...
              --help            Print help and exit
   -V         --version         Print version and exit
              --verbose         Increase Verbosity (up to 5 times)

   -h         --horizontal      Horizontal Placement
   -v         --vertical        Vertical Placement (default)

   -pSTRING   --profile=STRING  Window Manager Profile Name (default='Default')

   -m         --win-workspace   Enable multi-desktop _WIN_WORKSPACE support (oroborus, fluxbox, etc) (default=off)
   -w         --net-wm          Enable multi-desktop _NET_*_DESKTOP support (GNOME, NET WM, etc) (default=off)

but mine is an earlier version it seems.

It is in a *.deb archive, but as I mentioned above I retrieved it from the ostatic site. Where did you get yours? More recent is better of course.

As to borderless + tile, that depends. tile or wmtile will tile any program, but oroborus makes borderless only those programs you specify like so in the ~/.oroborusrc file:

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# define a list of borderless window class names
# seperated by semicolons.
borderless_windows=stalonetray;oclock;urxvt;xload;conky
# X-Chat

(Before-last line in my .oroborusrc config file.)

You say jemimah dabbled with this tiling stuff too?

As to cascades, tile doesn't do cascades, as it name implies!

I'm looking for an external cascade program for oroborus, that's what I'm saying. In addition to "tile", a "cascade" program would be a nice tool to have with oroborus.

BFN

Posted: **Thu 29 Mar 2012, 21:21**

One box i have Stolen tile from Fluppy WMpack pet.
Removed what i wanted and dumped the rest of it.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=47192.

I'll keep looking

Posted: **Sat 31 Mar 2012, 00:09**

Thanks!

I'll see if I can write a "cascade windows" script with the help of wmctrl.

Keep you posted.

BFN.

Posted: **Sat 31 Mar 2012, 06:58**

Bingo,

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tile 0.7.2

Usage: tile [OPTIONS]...
              --help            Print help and exit
   -V         --version         Print version and exit
   -d         --dump            Dump run-time config and exit
              --verbose         Increase Verbosity (up to 5 times)

   -h         --horizontal      Horizontal Placement
   -v         --vertical        Vertical Placement (default)

   -pSTRING   --profile=STRING  Window Manager Profile Name (default='Default')

   -m         --win-workspace   Enable multi-desktop _WIN_WORKSPACE support (oroborus, fluxbox, etc) (default=off)
   -w         --net-wm          Enable multi-desktop _NET_*_DESKTOP support (GNOME, NET WM, etc) (default=off)
   -u        --undecorated       Remove Window Decorations
   -c        --cascade          Casade the windows
   -s        --stripe           Stripe the windows
   -t        --tile             Tile the windows
   -i        --iconify          Iconify the windows
   -D        --deiconify        Raise all Windows

I got an newer one from debian but it lack options that this one have.
you need jemimah's tile from:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=47192
just change her WMpack.pet to an .tar.gz and open it up.

As to borderless + tile, that depends. tile or wmtile will tile any program, but oroborus makes borderless only those programs you specify like so in the ~/.oroborusrc file:
Code:
# define a list of borderless window class names
# seperated by semicolons.
borderless_windows=stalonetray;oclock;urxvt;xload;conky
# X-Chat

(Before-last line in my .oroborusrc config file.)

or use this:
-u --undecorated Remove Window Decorations

Casadeing windows

-c --cascade Casade the windows

Posted: **Mon 02 Apr 2012, 18:58**

Hello, harii.

Thanks for your trouble.

I followed your suggestion, but jemima's "tile" is not working for me at all. Nothing happens. I have to stick with the Debia 7.1 version to get any results. And both draw blue lines on the screen...

BFN.

Posted: **Wed 11 Apr 2012, 23:35**

Sorry musher0 been real busy.

I think i know whats wrong.
Where did you put the tile app.?
Try usr/bin and not usr/local/bin as in Fluppy

Fluppy and TXZ-pup are puppy 4

What puppy are you using?

What the console say?

Posted: **Sun 10 Jun 2012, 16:23**

Some Oroborus users use keylaunch. -- (useful for EvilWM, YeahWM and ect...)
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 303#350303
The DotPet :
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=22585

sample .keylaunchrc

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# Copy to $HOME/.keylaunchrc
#
# Format:
# key=...KeyName:Command
#
# ... No modifier
# *.. Shift
# .*. Ctrl
# ..* Alt
#
#key=..*Return:xterm
#key=.**n:netscape

key=*..z:smenu
key=*..x:9main /root/menu1.txt
key=*..c:9main /root/menu2.txt

key=..*s:seamonkey
key=..*l:links -g

key=.*.q:xkill
key=..*r:rox /usr/share/applications

Some find keylaunch easier to use than xkeybinds

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