Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mike Kazantsev <mike_kazantsev@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GUI for touchscreen PC?
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:47:53
Message-Id: 20090426114439.227914d7@coercion
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] GUI for touchscreen PC? by Adam Carter
1 On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:35:46 +1000
2 Adam Carter <Adam.Carter@×××××××××.au> wrote:
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4 > I have 800x480 resolution, but with the touchscreen the pointer is clumsy to use. I need something that has large buttons, and will re-size dialogue windows so that the buttons at the bottom still fit on the window. Any suggestions?
5
6 Some tiling WM like "awesome", prehaps?
7 It will fit everything on your screen, without overlapping or hiding
8 anything behind it's bounds.
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10 But it won't make buttons any larger, since it's not a WM business to
11 meddle in windows/widgets contents, only their composition.
12 You should have better luck tweaking GTK/QT settings, since pretty much
13 every button is drawn using a standard widget from one of these two.
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16 Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net

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