Dirk Hohndel at Akademy (KDE.News)

Posted Jul 31, 2010 20:30 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Dirk Hohndel at Akademy (KDE.News) by jospoortvliet
Parent article: Dirk Hohndel at Akademy (KDE.News)

The scripting is new and I had no idea about it :)

I moaned about this a few months ago: http://lwn.net/Articles/383746/. Basically I'd like an equivalent of fvwm's 'maximise on keystroke', 'maximise until you hit things on the same layer as you' and something like layering (so I can push some floating windows above all other windows and back down again with a keystroke).

If nobody else fixes this fixing it is on my todo list because I just can't stay with fvwm forever.

Dirk Hohndel at Akademy (KDE.News)

Posted Sep 4, 2010 19:11 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

In fact, the scripting barely *exists*: it's still being implemented. There is zero documentation besides blog posts (at least, none that google finds). I can't tell what version it is implemented in: it looks like trunk only.

Suggesting I use this barely-existing ultra-bleeding-edge feature to fix a problem *now* is more than slightly unhelpful :/ perhaps in KDE 4.6, maybe, but until then it looks like I'm stuck with fvwm. (Again, 'raise these windows to the top when a key is hit and stop them being obscured, lower them again when another key is hit' is not rocket science: but it seems to be something KWin is currently incapable of.)