Re: how to run WindowMaker "dockapps" in KDE?
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 4:23:05 pm Paul Johnson wrote:
Recently, I've been exploring KDE and have found its window
manager,
kwin, to be quite excellent. Combined with kdesktop, I can get just
about all of the customizations I want.
I have been a long time WindowMaker user, and have grown accustomed to
some of the dockapps. I can't find any way to dock them in a KDE
system. Program writers seem to think "dock" means an application
launcher, but in WindowMaker a dock is more than that. It is a place
where programs can run in "miniwindows". Yes, a dock can be a
launcher, but we don't need that function. What we need is some place
for a small program to run.
In particular, since I cannot find a small CPU monitor applet for the
kde panel, I want to run dockapps like "wmload" or "wmmon". When I
run them now, they just go to the top of the screen and the desktop
background shows through the clear parts (alpha channel, I suppose).
I guess that is adequate, but not so good looking as plopping the app
down on top of the pleasant colored square. It looks like this now:
http://pj.freefaculty.org/WindowManagers/wmmon_on_kde.png
Whereas it should be mounted on a standard background pixmap, as shown here
http://pj.freefaculty.org/WindowManagers/wmmon_should_be.png
Got any help on how to run things in miniwindows and have them restart
every time you log in?
Paul:
KDE includes some panel applets that might solve your problem. To access them,
right click on the panel and select "Add Applet to the Panel". A window will
open offering a selection of applets. There are two that may be of interest
to you: System Monitor (pretty damn simple), and System Guard (probably
closer to what you are accustomed to). Once installed, they are automatically
loaded whenever you log in to KDE. And, if you want to get rid of either,
right click on the panel again and take the "Remove from Panel" route.
Disclaimer: I'm not sure if the default Fedora KDE package includes either or
both of these applets; you may have to do some yumexing among the KDE
packages.
-- cmg
