Re: [RP] Howto create an overlay window ?

[Ingo Krabbe]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 09:40:43PM -0400, Rob Paisley wrote:
> I'm in agreement.  If it's two actual windows, ratpoison's not well suited 
> for putting on on another.  You're only hope is if the PIP is a transient 
> window that has constraints on size and you can then set transientgravity to 
> put it where you want it on the screen.
> 

Actually you can use such overlay windows with ratpoison, but they are
not managed in any way by ratpoison then (unmanage).  Such windows
normally live near the center of the screen and take some kind of
initial size.  You won't have any more control, unless the window takes
it's own place and size, which is totally allowed, but not used
commonly, as the non-tiling window managers would override the window
settings (called hints therefor).

I think you can manage overlapping frames with ratpoison, if you control
your framesizes with fdump/frestore. But that is not really comfortable.

> Good luck!
> 
> Rob
> 
> On Sep 12, 2011, at 5:53 PM, Daniel Maturana wrote:
> 
> > It seems Ratpoison isn't well suited for the 'PIP' functionality, since 
> > it's a tiling window manager and the PIP doesn't really respect that. You 
> > can have a window be 'on top', like dialog windows, but little control over 
> > its positioning, as far as I can tell. Using 'unmanage' is useful to tell 
> > Ratpoison to not control a window, but it won't help with the overlapping. 
> > I can't really think of a simple solution using ratpoison - it might be 
> > easier to use another window manager that supports floating windows (like 
> > dwm) or to perform the PIP functionality directly in whatever software 
> > you're using. The latter seems the way to go if you need fine control.
> > D.
> > 
> > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Helmut Auer <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hello List
> > 
> > I'm using ratpoison as wm for my Gen2VDR multimedia distribution.
> > Now there's a need for a small overlay window to implement PIP (picture in 
> > picture) functionality.
> > Is there anyway to realize this with ratpoison ?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > No one an idea howto realize this ?
> > 
> > 
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> > Helmut Auer, address@hidden
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