[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#591726: bluetile: no configuration tool registered (in Gnome)

[Denis Laxalde]

Joachim Breitner a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Am Donnerstag, den 05.08.2010, 10:05 -0400 schrieb Denis Laxalde:
> > Joachim Breitner a écrit :
> > > Dear Denis
> > > 
> > > Am Mittwoch, den 04.08.2010, 22:06 -0400 schrieb Denis Laxalde:
> > > > Trying to launch gnome-window-properties when bluetile is running
> > > > returns the following message:
> > > > 
> > > >     Cannot start the preferences application for your window manager
> > > >     Window manager "LG3D" has not registered a configuration tool
> > > > 
> > > > Because of this, ones looses some interesting settings (such as the
> > > > `movement key` thing...)
> > > > Nevertheless, this works fine with XMonad (using gnomeConfig).
> > > 
> > > I’m getting this with xmonad as well, probably because I set the Window
> > > Manager name to LG3D to avoid problems with Java. I’m surprised that you
> > > don’t get this problem with xmonad. Can you send me the output of
> > > "wmctrl -m" while running your xmonad config?
> > 
> > Actually I was wrong. It does not work as well with xmonad. Sorry about
> > that.
> > 
> > > And do the settings work when using XMonad?
> > 
> > Some of these settings seem to be activated in the gnomeconfig of
> > xmonad (without extra configuration). For instance,
> >  - window selection follows the mouse,
> >  - the movement key is set to mod.
> > I actually thought this was inherited from gnome settings but apparently
> > not.
> > In bluetile, the window selection can be configured
> > (focus_follows_mouse: true) but the movement key cannot as far as I can
> > tell (probably because there is no mouse bindings so far).
> > 
> > So maybe this report should be classified as an enhancement request for
> > mouse bindings...
> 
> the xmonad (or bluetile) settings are independent of any GNOME
> configuration. If gnome-window-properties fails to start, then this is
> actually a feature :-)
> 
> I’m not exactly sure what you mean with movement keys. Do you mean the
> key that you have to press so that clicking, holding and moving the
> mouse will move the window? Did you try with the key you specified as
> the default_modifier (Windows key by default)?

Well, "movement key" might not be the appropriate term... What I mean is
(from xmonad's manual):
       mod-button1
              Set the window to floating mode and move by dragging

In bluetile, mod-{anybutton} does not do anything.

Cheers,

Denis