how to run WindowMaker "dockapps" in KDE?
Paul Johnson
pauljohn32 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 20:23:05 UTC 2007
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 E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas
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