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What is the tiny dot under the taskbar for ?
Posted: Fri 23 Mar 2007, 06:28
by lotech
I am just curiously about the use of the tiny square dot at the low right of screen, you need to move the taskbar up to see it, I click on it nothing happened seems like a comestic flaw, but it reminds me 'The Net' movie
Posted: Fri 23 Mar 2007, 08:02
by amish
i've wondered this for some time. it's clearly a *cough*"feature" of xwin, it's there in jwm (which seems to cover it with the taskbar) and in other wm's (which for the cosmetic flaw, do not always)
Posted: Fri 23 Mar 2007, 12:42
by Kal
From /root/.xinitrc, here is what it says:
#0.9.8 sync cut-buffers and clipboard. only useful for older apps
#such as rxvt that use the cut-buffers...
/usr/bin/autocutsel &
#...disadvantage of this is it creates a little square bottom-right of screen.
Kal
Posted: Fri 23 Mar 2007, 18:23
by MU
yes, for some functions of X a program needs a window, even if it is almost invisible.
I once wrote a tool, that sets "struts", that are borders on your desktop.
So a newly opened window will not cover a taskbar for example.
I only got it working by creating a window, and moving it outside the visible area.
Without that window, the desktop could not be controlled.
This is the reason, why Puppybasic has the on first sight "useless" function xwin_createsimplewindow().
Mark
Posted: Fri 23 Mar 2007, 18:43
by paulh177
lotech -- they are trying to cover up the truth, which is that it is a portal to another dimension accessible only by puppy developers ...
Posted: Sat 24 Mar 2007, 06:23
by amish
paulh177 wrote:it is a portal to another dimension accessible only by puppy developers ...
yeah, let's hope the firewall knows about it!
Posted: Sat 24 Mar 2007, 07:37
by lotech
yeah meet you guys in the far side
Posted: Sat 24 Mar 2007, 14:06
by Bill_Gates
I put that there
Posted: Mon 26 Mar 2007, 03:02
by lotech
Hey Bill, did you steal the trash as well, your new recycle bin looks exactly the same !