tmab+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas Mok) (04/08/91)
I am not sure whether there is a way to do the following: I find it quite annoying that the dock icons (or the menus for this matter) always cover part of my windows. This gets worst when altdock is run. My working space on the screen is effectively cut down. Is there a way to set it so that when I click on my windows, they show up on top of the icons? A minor point: I have heard complaints about monitors get burn-marks from the white borders of the icons. The ability to do the above may help ease the problem. No, I haven't check the NeXTAnswers or FAQ yet. Tom
wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) (04/09/91)
Icons are higher in the window hierarchy than anything else (menus are included in this as well). Possible solutions: - use iLog (available from purdue archive site) to set the height of the NeXT icon to 5 pixels automatically at login and drag the dock out of the way when not using it. - AltDock: set your offset so that when the altDock is in its 'home' position it is most of way off the screen. I usually have altDock's default position over the AltDock application's icon-- at the bottom right of the screen. W/the offset set so that most of the arrow icon is off the screen, I don't lose the 5 pixel high NeXT icon. - set the default menu location to have only one pixel of the menu title on the screen (so you can still grab it). You may have to use 'dwrite' from a shell to set such a strange default value. b.bum b.bumgarner | Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are my own. wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu | I officially don't represent anyone unless I NeXT Campus Consultant | explicity say I am doing so. So there. <Thpppt!> "I ride tandem with the random/Things don't run the way I planned them.."
cap+@cs.cmu.edu (Chris Paris) (04/09/91)
I don't know in general how to make the dock icons lower than application
windows, but to fix the NeXT icon you can type
% echo "0 Beepwindow setwindowlevel" | pft
This will change the window level of only the NeXT icon. If you then drag
this icon to the bottom of your screen, you will be able to use the entire
screen.
I went a step further and replaced the bitmap for the NeXT icon with a
33% gray rectangle, so it is indistinguishable from my background
color. This was done using the perl extract/combine scripts posted a
while back on the Workspace application. These two changes together
give the appearance of no dock, save your screen from dock burnin, and
still allow you to drag the dock up when you want to use it.
Chris Paris
cap@cs.cmu.edu