[eclipse-devel] Some questions

[Edi Weitz]

Hi!

I've recently started to actually /use/ Eclipse after I had just tried
it a couple of times. Great work, I'm very impressed!

I have a couple of questions and issues which I list below. Pardon me
if some of them are just plain stupid, I've mostly used KDE in the
last years which probably completely ruined my understanding of X and
window managers.

I'm trying to run Eclipse "stand-alone", i.e. without Gnome or
somesuch, because I figured out that I only need a rather minimal
setup. I rarely use more apps than Emacs, some xterms, and a web
browser.

I'm using Eclipse from CVS.

1. I'm running gkrellm all of the time to monitor the CPU and some
   other things. I'd like to have this window always on top, i.e. not
   obscured by other windows. How do I do that with Eclipse?

2. It'd be even better if gkrellm had it's own part of the screen that
   couldn't be touched by other programs. In other words: If I
   maximize another window it should only grow as far as to the edge
   of gkrellm (as if it were a panel in KDE). Is that possible?

3. If I've maximized a window I can't resize it with the mouse
   afterwards - I have to unmaximize it first. Is that expected
   behaviour?

4. Sometimes when I maximize an xterm it looses focus. Does anybody
   else see this? I fail to create a reproducable test case but it
   happens regularly.

5. What does "Pin" mean?

6. Every xterm I start opens at the same place (0,0) and covers the
   other xterms that are already there although I haven't set this in
   my .Xdefaults. Is it possible to automatically place a new window
   in such a way that it doesn't obscure other windows of the same
   type (meaning from the same app)?

7. If I click button3 on the root window I get a menu with four
   entries "Move", "Resize", "Close", and "Kill". I understand what
   "Close" and "Kill" do but I cannot see how I'm supposed to use the
   other two.

Thanks in advance for any help and, again, my apologies if these are
dumb questions.

Cheers,
Edi.