Jendela to save Metacity
Well, the last few days I’ve been filing bugs and trying to write patches. They are all related to my intention of getting rid of Openbox and using Metacity in its place. This is the current list: Bug...
View ArticleJendela – change of implementation language
Unfortunately it seems the Python bindings for wnck aren’t quite up to scratch. I’m getting numerous run-time warnings and sometimes even segmentation faults when doing some stuff (e.g. when shading...
View ArticleJendela BZR repo is up
My local development repo is being uploaded to http://therning.org/magnus_bzr/jendela.dev/ as I write this. There isn’t much functionality yet–you can shade windows–but hopefully I’ll have time to...
View ArticleThe GNOME fun never ends ;-)
After an attempt at hacking “window packing” into Jendela I ran into a bit of a showstopper: Metacity doesn’t support _NET_MOVERESIZE_WINDOW. Now this is a bit of a problem, because “window packing” is...
View ArticleFirst version of Jendela is out
Just uploaded a release, version 0.5, to GnomeFiles. Of course I also created a page for it. Hopefully someone will enjoy it. Share/Bookmark
View ArticleReviving Jendela
I doubt anyone really noticed but a few weeks ago I retired Jendela due to inactivity in GNOME bug 344521. Without those changes I just couldn’t write the tool I imagined. Since I raised that bug on...
View ArticleMetacity joy…
As I wrote a while back the development version of Metacity now has support for _NET_MOVERESIZE_WINDOW. I’ve just compiled a bleeding edge version checked out of subversion and it’s all working fine....
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