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A number of Panel placement and text placement options can be selected; the safest setting is window manager, and is necessary for some window managers. It means that placement of all windows is identical to what you would expect for simple X applications. Centre will centre panels on the screen. Mouse will attempt to place panels near the mouse pointer. Intelligent placement puts windows next to other windows, in those places where they cover the least amount of space in other windows.
The cursor blink rate for both texts and dialog panels can be set in milliseconds. The value zero means that the cursor will not blink.
Furthermore, you can choose how often you want to hear a bell sound. This is especially useful when the status line is switched off. Select
When actively set focus and warp mouse is selected, Edith will attempt to keep the `input focus' where you are most likely to want to type, by both requesting the focus and warping the mouse around. When this feature is switched on, Edith can be operated practically without using the mouse, even when many different windows are involved; however, it may not work properly with all window managers.
Finally, you can choose here whether Edith should always ask for a
confirmation when you select Quit (File menu,
You can cycle between different windows using Cycle texts (Windows menu, HANDS-FREE WINDOW MANAGEMENT
If your window manager acts favourably, you should in principle select
intelligent placement and actively set focus and warp mouse in
the interface options panel. This reduces the number of cases you
will need to move the mouse to the windows you want to work in (this is
often annoying in graphical-user-interface applications that pop up lots
of informational message boxes).
xmodmap
, which can be recommended especially for
Linux users).
SUPPORTED WINDOW MANAGERS
Edith Pro has been tested under various methods of window placement with
4Dwm, fvwm 1.2, mwm, twm and tvtwm. Intelligent
placement is known not to work with vtwm. For these functions to
work properly with all window managers, a certain amount of knowledge
about the behaviour of various window managers is necessary. Therefore
if this behaviour changes in future versions, this might have
consequences for some of Edith's window placement modes. Please report
any problems with window managers immediately so a fix can be
considered.
Index Menus Panels Troubleshooting Key glossary Glossary
File options Highlighting styles