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Furycd001

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Registered: 2012-09-10

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Creating a custom session & modifying application windows...

HI all

Could anyone point me in the right direction for creating a custom x-session with composition...

Basically I have gnome2-panel & docky customised to look like mac osx ( global menu installed etc etc ) but with docky i need composition for it to work properly. Can anyone tell me how or what I should use to get composition working in an x-session :?

Also could anyone tell me if it is possible to remove the global-menu ( file, edit, view etc etc ) from within applications so that the installed global-menu in the panel is the only one accessible !!  At the moment I have the global-menu sitting in my panel & it works perfectly but my problem is that that the global-menu within applications still exists !!  Is there anyway I can remove this :?

NOTE: I have already tried compiz, but it is generally slow on my computer so that really isn't an option...

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pvsage

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Registered: 2009-10-18

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Re: Creating a custom session & modifying application windows...

^ xcompmgr? cairo-compmgr?

Don't know if it's possible to have the WM/DE bypass an application's context menu (I think that's what you're referring to with "global-menu within applications"?) but I have always considered these to be a good thing, so I've never looked for such a solution.

EDIT:  I see this thread opener represents your first post.  Welcome to Club#!!

Last edited by pvsage (2012-10-23 20:02:17)

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Furycd001

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From: Earth somewhere...

Registered: 2012-09-10

Posts: 17

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Re: Creating a custom session & modifying application windows...

Yea im referring to the context menu as global-menu...

Hmmm im just asking this question because i remember a few years back someone using ubuntu 8.10 i think it was managed to successfully remove the global-menu from within applications & have only one within their panel.  Unfortunately i cannot for the life of me remember who the person was or where i even saw it :-(  But thanks for suggesting "xcompmgr? cairo-compmgr?"  I'll deffinatly have to take a look at both those & see if they could be of any use :-)}  Still need some info on creating a custom x-session though.

Haha this is actually my 2nd thread lol.  I've been using #! for a month or 2 now :-)}  Must say though I completely love it, for the fact that it does everything I need it to do & its faster than most other operating systems that i've tried on this machine.

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