15.4.1.1. Background

This capplet sets the background via GNOME. Window managers also can set the background and can sometimes conflict with the GNOME setting. To ensure that GNOME sets the background, check the box labeled Use GNOME to Set Background at the bottom of the window.

15.4.1.2. Screensaver

15.4.1.3. Theme selector

15.4.1.4. Window manager

The listing shows installed window managers that you can use. You can add a new window manager to the list by clicking the Add button. Type the window manager's name in the dialog box. If it has its own configuration tool, supply the tool name and location, too. A button underneath the list will be enabled stating Run the Configuration Tool for wm-name. Clicking this button will open the configuration application for that window manager.

15.4.2.1. Animation

15.4.2.2. Buttons

Two slider controls allow you to set the number of pixels used for the border width around tiles and the depth of the icon when pressed.

The following additional settings are available:

Make buttons flush with panel edge

This setting causes buttons to be placed at the edges of the panel. There is no visible space between the button and the desktop background, although there is still spacing between panel buttons.

Show button tiles only when cursor is over them

This setting causes tiles to be unseen until the mouse pointer is over the button.

Prelight buttons on mouse-over

This setting causes buttons to "light up" when the pointer is over them.

15.4.2.3. Panel objects

The Padding slider sets the amount of space (in pixels) separating objects on the panel.

15.4.2.4. Menu

The first radio button enables large icons to be used for each menu item, indicating whether it is a folder, file, or application.

The second radio button, Show ... Buttons, toggles the cascading display of submenus off and on. If this button is selected, buttons containing ... are displayed for each menu item that contains a submenu. The submenu is displayed only when you press the ... button. Automatic display of cascading menus is used if this button is not selected.

The Show Pop-Up Menus Outside of Panels button controls the relative placement of pop-up menus to the panel. If this is enabled, pop-up menus are displayed on the desktop so that they don't overlap the panel. The Keep Menus in Memory button allows you to cache recently opened menus in memory, providing faster response from your desktop environment.

The remainder of this tab configures which sections of the menu you want to display. You have a choice of placing the sections directly on the main menu, placing them in a submenu, or not showing the sections.

15.4.2.5. Miscellaneous

Tooltips enabled

Enables tooltips to be displayed for launcher icons.

Close drawer if launcher inside it is pressed

Causes a drawer to close after one of its items is selected. Otherwise, it will remain open until you click on its closing arrow.

Raise panels on mouse-over

Causes the panel to come to the foreground on mouse-over if it is covered by another window.

Keep panel below windows

Allows GNOME-compliant applications to display over the panel (normally they would not cover the panel).

Confirm the removal of panels with a dialog

A pop-up window will ask you if you really want to remove a panel.

15.4.3.1. Default editor

15.4.3.2. Mime types

15.4.3.3. URL handlers

15.4.5.1. Keyboard

Three sliders adjust the volume, pitch, and duration of the keyboard bell. Click the Test button to hear the the bell's new settings.

15.4.5.2. Mouse

15.4.7.1. Applications

Menu bars in GNOME applications can be detached from windows and placed anywhere on the desktop. This is the default behavior.

A detachable menu will have a small bar placed on its left edge. Click on this bar and drag to move the menu bar to another part of the desktop. To redock the menu bar, drag it back to the titlebar of its application window, and it will reattach.

For unmovable menu bars, unselect the the radio button labeled Can Detach and Move Menus.

The same detachable functionality is applied to submenus by default. To disable this behavior, unselect the radio button labeled Submenus Can Be Torn Off.

Three settings allow you to display menus, toolbars, and buttons on toolbars with a relieved border. The relieved border gives a three-dimensional visual appearance to the components; otherwise, they appear very flat.

Two options are available for status bars displayed at the bottom of windows. If a progress meter is used in a status bar, you can configure it to always appear on the right side of the statusbar. If this setting is disabled, the application will determine the progress meter placement.

Some statusbars may have user functionality defined by the application. You can enable statusbar interactivity with the supplied setting.

15.4.7.2. Dialogs

The Dialog Layout section allows you to configure the position of dialog buttons with the following options: Default, Spread Buttons Out, Put Buttons on Edges, Left-justify Buttons, and Right-justify Buttons. You also can enable or disable icons for dialog buttons and choose to use a window's statusbar instead of a dialog, when possible.

The Dialog Behavior section allows you to set the position of dialog windows with the following options: Let Window Manager Decide, Center of the Screen, and At the Mouse Pointer. You also can configure dialog hints and enable the automatic placement of a dialog over the application window from which it was launched.

15.4.7.3. MDI

15.4.8.1. Appearance

Some pop-up windows are configured to be displayed without the window titlebar. To force the display of the title bar for all windows, click the button labeled Decorate Transient Windows Similarly to Top-level Windows.

The font button allows you to select the default desktop font. The default font is set by the GNOME desktop theme and Sawfish is aware of the setting so that they match.

15.4.8.2. Focus behavior

The selection box at the top determines how the mouse pointer sets focus. The default is to focus when the mouse clicks on the window. The other choices are to focus only when the pointer is in the window ("enter-exit") and focus stays with the last window entered ("enter-only").

Three checkboxes are used to enable the following focus policies: focus each window when first displayed, transient windows inherit focus from their parent, and raise windows when they are focused. You can set the delay (in milliseconds) between focus and the time the window is raised (brought to the foreground).

The advanced section contains the following additional settings:

• Give focus to windows even when they haven't asked for it.

• Offset from left window edge when warping.

• Offset from top window edge when warping.

• Does click-to-focus mode pass the click through to the window?

15.4.8.3. Minimizing and maximizing

Windows are uniconified onto the current workspace

Minimized windows are opened on the current desktop workspace when they are clicked in the tasklist. You will usually have only one workspace in GNOME, which is divided into a grid of separate screens called viewports.

Windows are raised after being uniconified

Minimized windows are opened in the foreground when they are clicked in the tasklist.

Windows are focused after being uniconified

Minimized windows receive keyboard focus when they are clicked in the tasklist.

Iconifying a window that's a member of a group removes the whole group

If you minimize a window that is part of a group (e.g., an application may spawn several child windows from the main window), the whole group of windows will be minimized.

Uniconifying a window that's a member of a group restarts the whole group

In conjunction with the previous setting, a minimized window group will reopen if one of its members is raised.

Windows are uniconified to the current viewport

Minimized windows will reopen in the current screen, regardless of where they were before. In Sawfish, each screen of a desktop is referred to as a viewport.

The settings for maximizing windows are as follows:

Maximizing a window dimension always increases the size of that dimension

A window maximized vertically or horizontally will increase to that size even if it fills the screen.

Raise windows when they're maximized

Maximized windows automatically come to the foreground and receive focus.

Let ignored windows be overlapped when filling windows

If a window is set to be ignored (via the window menu), it will be overlapped by a fill command.

Lock window geometry while the window is maximized

No resizing of a window can occur if it is maximized.

15.4.8.4. Miscellaneous

Windows selected (normally by the Windows menu) are raised

A selected window, either by keyboard shortcut or the desktop window menu, will be raised with focus.

Unshade selected windows

If a shaded window is selected, it will automatically unshade.

Warp the mouse pointer to selected windows

The pointer is automatically moved to a selected window.

Keep transient windows stacked above

This listbox selects how transient windows are placed. Choose from None, Parents, or All.

Update all windows when the default frame style is changed

If you change the window frame style, all windows will be automatically updated.

Automatically reload themes when they are updated

If a theme is edited, the changes are made immediately.

Group transient windows with their parents

Transient windows such as dialogs are automatically placed in the window group of their parents.

Raise windows when they are unshaded

Windows receive focus and come to the top when unshaded.

Tooltips will be displayed until the pointer leaves the item. You can set them to automatically disappear by enabling Remove Tooltips After a Period of Time. The amount of time before displaying and before removing tooltips is set by two input boxes.

You also can set the font used in tooltips, as well as the background and foreground colors.

15.4.8.5. Moving and resizing

You also can toggle the following settings:

• Raise windows being moved or resized interactively.

• Show the current position while moving windows interactively.

• Show the current dimensions while resizing windows interactively.

15.4.8.6. Placement

• Randomly (transient default)

• Interactively

• Centered

• Centered-on-parent

• Under-pointer

• None

• First-fit

• Best-fit (window default)

• First-fit-or-interactive

If you don't want to allow applications any control over placement, check the box Ignore Program-specific Window Positions. This setting is disabled by default.

For a first-fit or best-fit policy, you can set an amount of space in pixels to leave between window edges.

15.4.8.7. Workspaces

The first option in this window sets the number of workspaces. To define the grid of viewports, select the numbers of columns and rows you want each workspace divided into from the available settings.

By default, transient (pop-up) windows will be opened in the same workspace as the window that spawned them.

The Advanced section contains settings for moving between workspaces. When moving through workspaces or moving a window, choose the following options for movement at the ends of workspaces: stop, wrap around, or keep going.

The easiest way to move among viewports is by using the Desk Guide applet in the GNOME panel. If you would like to move through screens when moving the pointer on the screen, you can enable edge flipping. Two checkbox options set up edge flipping:

• Flip to next viewport/workspace when pointer hits screen edge.

• Flip only when interactively moving a window.

15.4.9.1. Basic options

Move methods

These buttons select how the window is drawn when it is moved. The following styles are available: Opaque, Lined, Box, Shaded, Semi-Solid, and Translucent.

Resize methods

These buttons select how the window is drawn when it is resized. The following styles are available: Opaque, Lined, Box, Shaded, and Semi-Solid.

Keyboard focus follows

These buttons determine how "focus" is selected by the actions of the mouse. The available settings are Mouse Pointer (focus follows mouse), Sloppy Pointer (focus follows mouse after a delay), and Pointer Clicks (focus is given to window on which a mouse clicks).

15.4.9.2. Desktops

15.4.9.3. Behavior

All new windows that appear get the keyboard focus

New windows automatically receive the keyboard focus.

All new pop-up windows get the keyboard focus

New pop-ups automatically receive the keyboard focus.

Only new pop-up windows whose owner is focused get the keyboard focus

Only pop-ups generated by the window with the current focus receive the keyboard focus.

Raise windows when switching focus with keyboard

Minimized windows open when receiving focus.

Send the pointer to windows when switching focus with the keyboard

Mouse pointer moves automatically to windows that receive keyboard focus.

Tooltips

Click the Enable button to allow tooltips to appear when the pointer is over an icon. You can set the amount of time in seconds for the tooltip to display with the slider control.

Transient pop-up windows appear together with leader

Displays additional pop-up windows with the window that generated them.

Switch to where pop-up window appears

Automatically switches to the desktop screen where a new pop-up appears.

Display icons when windows are iconified

Displays a small icon on the screen when a window is minimized. Leave this option disabled as GNOME will handle this functionality with the panel.

Place windows manually

When a new window is opened, the pointer is automatically switched to the activated move bar of the window. Move the window to the desired location and click to place it.

15.4.9.4. Audio

15.4.9.5. Special FX

15.4.9.6. Backgrounds

The High Quality Rendering for Background button enables background images to be displayed at the full resolution and color depth that your display is set to.

Background for desktops that have not recently been viewed can be removed from memory by enabling the Minutes After Which to Expunge Unviewed Backgrounds from Memory button. Set the number of minutes to keep them in memory with the slider.

Note that setting a background image in Enlightenment will override the background settings you have made with GNOME.

15.4.9.7. Themes

15.4.9.8. Shortcuts