From: larry@marso.com
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 21:11:28 -0500
To: gimp-developer@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu, wm-dev@windowmaker.org,
        wm-user@windowmaker.org
Subject: [gimp-devel] Wmaker and Gimp: perfect window management

I withdraw my recent remark about window management frustrations using
Gimp and Windowmaker.

Within Gimp:

File->Preferences->Session->(click everything)->Save->OK

File->Dialog->Brushes                 | Place these at convenient
File->Dialog->Tool Options            | positions on the desktop
File->Dialog->Layers & Channels       |

You can also position the toolbox wherever you like it best.

File->Quit

Relaunch Gimp.

Gimp has a trick -- hit "tab" and all the dialog boxes vanish; hit "tab"
again and the toolbox only returns; hit "tab" again and all dialog boxes
return.  Positioning *only* works right if you follow the sequence of
commands I layed out above.  If you haven't, then the dialog boxes
reappear all on top of each other (useless).

This does not fix the File->Open dialog under toolbox problem.  However,
there is a solution for that, too.  Use wmaker.

Within Gimp: 

File->Open

Right click on the dialog boxes title bar. 
Cntrl-Esc->Attributes->Window Attributes->Keep on Top/Floating.

The positioning of a new canvas appears is intelligent, using automatic
window placement under wmaker.

Even fancier: open several different canvases at the same time.  Leave one
canvas where it is.  Use wmaker to select each of the others, one at a
time, and take it to its own workspace.  Go back to the first workspace.
Now, as long as you hit "tab" (hiding the toolbox and dialog boxes) before
you leave the first workspace, you can hit "tab" (once or twice) on any
of the canvases on the other workspaces and bring back the dialog boxes.

Voila!  Gimp and wmaker together now offer all the window and dialog
box management features I've noticed (and cared about) on the Photoshop
platform.

-- 
-lsm