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Topic: some netbook settings

to get more screen space on my mini I've done a couple things that really help. First I'm not running a panel, alt+tab works fine for me and you can still run trayer in the bottom corner.
If you add

<application class="*">
  <decor>no</decor>
</application>

to the applications section of your rc.xml then it removes your window decorations. Just use super+d to see your desktop and alt+F4 to close windows.
For firefox I removed the statusbar, you can add the fission plugin to see loading status in the address bar. Also if you install compact menu you can fit everything on one bar at the top. You can remove the search bar and add shortcuts for your searches by going to the search page, i.e. google, then right click on the search bar and select "add keyword for this search". I set g for google, w for wikipedia, etc. Now if I want to do a google search I just go to the address bar and type: g whatever I'm searching for. If anyone has any other tips for saving some screen realestate add em here.

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Re: some netbook settings

This'll come in handy if I can ever convince my wife to not use the Mini9 as a print server..

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Re: some netbook settings

The Google Chrome browser for Linux should be here within a few months.  On WinXP, Chrome, by design, is very screen efficient.

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Re: some netbook settings

Nice tips! I have a feeling that the undecorated windows might be a little extreme for some, but once you get used to them, there are definite advantages. Interestingly, in the new .02 releases I have bound Openbox's combined client list menu to <Super>+<Tab>, this is another great way to navigate windows/applications and virtual desktops all in one menu. If you are running a previous version, it can be bound with an entry like below in ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml:

<keybind key="W-Tab">
  <action name="ShowMenu">
   <menu>client-list-combined-menu</menu>
  </action>
</keybind>

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I've been using that a lot as well, it's really sweet

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Re: some netbook settings

Philip, thats the same as if you middle-click on the desktop, right?

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anonymous wrote:

Philip, thats the same as if you middle-click on the desktop, right?

It is, but I rarely use the middle-click, for some reason it made sense to assign it to <Super>+<Tab>, probably because it relates to <Alt>+<Tab>?

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Great tip. Moving applications from desktop to desktop can be easily accomplished with out window decorations. To do this Alt - right click and hold, drag window to the right or left edge of your screen, hold there for 400 milliseconds and blam! suddenly your application is on next desktop. As usual this behavior is configurable.

Sample code from rc.xml

    <screenEdgeWarpTime>400</screenEdgeWarpTime>
    <!-- Time before changing desktops when the pointer touches the edge of the
       screen while moving a window, in milliseconds (1000 = 1 second).
       Set this to 0 to disable warping -->
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Re: some netbook settings

kestrel wrote:

Alt - right click and hold, drag window to the right or left edge of your screen

Left click, isn't it? Right click is resize

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Re: some netbook settings

I've held off installing CrunchBang on my MSI Wind because Netbook Remix running on regular Ubuntu just works so well.

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Re: some netbook settings

actually you'll get more screen space running it this way since you wont have the top panel. You'll just loose the auto-maximizing, which I thought was annoying anyway, and the launcher which is nice but I like dmenu. Also a little of the space I freed up I'm using for a horizontal conky at the top, just set a top margin in the openbox config and the windows won't cover it.

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1esproc wrote:
kestrel wrote:

Alt - right click and hold, drag window to the right or left edge of your screen

Left click, isn't it? Right click is resize

Yes, my mistake.  Should be...

kestrel wrote:

Alt - LEFT click and hold, drag window to the right or left edge of your screen

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iggykoopa wrote:

You'll just loose the auto-maximizing, which I thought was annoying anyway, and the launcher which is nice but I like dmenu.

     

<maximized>yes</maximized>

works for me

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thanks that'll help for anyone wanting to replace maximus(I thought it was annoying anyway, If I want to maximize an application I'll do it myself). Another thing to mention with the maximize and decor options is you can set them per application as well. So if you know you always want firefox with no decorations and maximized you can put 

<application name="firefox">
  <decor>no</decor>
  <maximized>yes</maximized>
</application>

in your rc.xml.

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iggykoopa wrote:

thanks that'll help for anyone wanting to replace maximus(I thought it was annoying anyway, If I want to maximize an application I'll do it myself). Another thing to mention with the maximize and decor options is you can set them per application as well. So if you know you always want firefox with no decorations and maximized you can put 

<application name="firefox">
  <decor>no</decor>
  <maximized>yes</maximized>
</application>

in your rc.xml.

Now that one is handy smile Will definitely be utilizing that

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Re: some netbook settings

Great tips! Thank you all for contributing.

Crunchbang is perfect for my MSI Wind u120. I was on easy peasy before, but when i switched my battery life got 2 times longer.

Also F11 in most program does the maximize trick  wink

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Re: some netbook settings

I found this to work better for Firefox

<applications>
    <application class="Firefox" role="browser">
          <decor>no</decor>
          <maximized>yes</maximized>
    </application>
</applications>

as only the browser window are maximised and all other windows are decorated and not maximised.

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I didn't think of that setting in openbox, now I can get even more screen realestate, thanks a lot big_smile

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Re: some netbook settings

iggykoopa wrote:

to get more screen space on my mini I've done a couple things that really help. First I'm not running a panel, alt+tab works fine for me and you can still run trayer in the bottom corner.
If you add

<application class="*">
  <decor>no</decor>
</application>

to the applications section of your rc.xml then it removes your window decorations. Just use super+d to see your desktop and alt+F4 to close windows.
For firefox I removed the statusbar, you can add the fission plugin to see loading status in the address bar. Also if you install compact menu you can fit everything on one bar at the top. You can remove the search bar and add shortcuts for your searches by going to the search page, i.e. google, then right click on the search bar and select "add keyword for this search". I set g for google, w for wikipedia, etc. Now if I want to do a google search I just go to the address bar and type: g whatever I'm searching for. If anyone has any other tips for saving some screen realestate add em here.

Thanks for the tips in firefox, very useful. Just a question when you remove the decor from the windows, it's ok to close and get the desktop (I knew these shortcuts), but how to minimize/maximize the windows if needed.
Or maybe you force them to be maximized always ?

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If you use a panel, you can right-click on the task and select minimize/maximize.

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<keybind key="C-m">
      <action name="ToggleMaximizeFull"/>
    </keybind>

if you put that in your rc.xml it will bind maximize to ctrl+m, thats how mine is set up.

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Thanks, I didn't think about it but you're right it is easy like this.

Thanks to anonymous too wink

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Re: some netbook settings

I'm using the auto-maximize and no decor stuff for all apps, and I love it. I'm still using 1 panel w/ tint + trayer, which I think works out very nicely. As far as using Firefox, I'm using vimperator, which allows pretty decent real estate saving. There actually are 2 "statusbars" + the tab bar + the panel right now. I'm wondering if I could get rid of one of the statusbars in Vimp. I might ditch the panel, now that you mentioned it.