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Lea

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From: Slovenia

Registered: 2010-01-21

Posts: 34

Awesome and Gimp

Hi.

How do i need to set awesome if i want gimp to be normal gimp (not tiled and with toolbox&comp. on top). If i set it floating toolbox is not on top and it gets covered. I know if i set in gimp that toolbox is normal window it will be tiled. But i don't want that. Thank you.

anrxc

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2008-03-22

Posts: 834

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Re: Awesome and Gimp

You can dock the toolbox windows. Easiest for you is to run Gimp on a floating tag, then in the perferences don't set to "Normal window" but to "Utility window". You can then dock the toolbox along a screen edge (i.e. just pull it with the mouse until it snaps).

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You need to install an RTFM interface.

rider

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From: Slovenia

Registered: 2009-09-28

Posts: 6

Re: Awesome and Gimp

Hi,

try my configuration et notes below.

Kind regard / Lep pozdrav

Janez

-- Start rc.lua ---

-- Define tags
-- {{{ Tags
-- Define a tag table which hold all screen tags.
tags = {}
for s = 1, screen.count() do
    -- Each screen has its own tag table.
    tags[s] = awful.tag({ "terms", "www", "mail", "gimp", 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 }, s, layouts[3])
end
-- }}}

-- {{{ Rules
awful.rules.rules = {

    -- All clients will match this rule.
    { rule = { },
      properties = { size_hints_honor = false,
                     border_width = beautiful.border_width,
                     border_color = beautiful.border_normal,
                     focus = true,
                     keys = clientkeys,
                     buttons = clientbuttons } },
    { rule = { class = "MPlayer" },
      properties = { floating = true } },
    { rule = { class = "pinentry" },
      properties = { floating = true } },
     { rule = { class = "Gimp" },
      properties = { floating = true, tag = tags[1][4], switchtotag = tags[1][4] } },
    -- Set Firefox to always map on tags number 2 of screen 1.
    -- xprop to find WM_CLASS(STRING) = "Navigator", "Namoroka"
    { rule = { class = "Namoroka" },
      properties = { tag = tags[1][2], switchtotag = tags[1][2] } }

}
-- }}}

--- end rc.lua ---

And some hints
a. Tool boxes are over the main window but pressing main window hides them
b. Solution No1 is to force toolboxes to stay over the main window in Gimp with
    edit -> preferences -> window management -> Hint for toolbox -> keep above
c. Solution No2, I know a stupid one but it works (on the way to find how to move floating windows)
    Go to Gnome for example, place Gimp windows in way you want and quit. Gimp automaticly
    saves your window placement (lokk at options) for next session - awesome certainly.