On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:27:49PM +0100, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
> 1) I want to keep (e.g. in the lower left corner of my screen) a text
> label with the desktop number or name
>
> After some experiments, I think the best is to use FvwmButtons
Yes.
> I define a transparent color set
> Colorset 10 Transparent,Fore White
>
> then for each desktop I define a FvwmButtons like this (only I
> call them 0,1,2 ...)
>
> Style MyDesk0 StartsOnDesk 0, SkipMapping,NoTitle,WindowListSkip,
> !Borders,!Handles,ParentalRelativity,StickyAcrossPages,
> !StickyAcrossDesks,StaysOnBottom
> DestroyModuleConfig MyDesk0*
> *MyDesk0: (Title "desk 0", Action Nop)
> *MyDesk0: Colorset 10
>
> Module FvwmButtons -g -0-0 MyDesk0
>
> Each one has hardcoded the desk number (or potentially name).
> I hoped I could use $[desk.n] as a dynamic content. but I found with
> some disappointment that it is the current desk at the moment the
> button or menu or whatever is created.
>
> Is there any smarter solution (with a single fvwmbutton or other
> widget for all desks, which displays the current desk number as soon
> as one moves to it ?)
This is why you use FvwmEvent and the SendToModule directive:
DestroyModuleConfig FE-UpdateDeskNum
*FE-UpdateDeskNum: new_desk NewFunc
AddToFunc StartFunction I Module FvwmEvent FE-UpdateDeskNum
DestroyFunc NewFunc
AddToFunc NewFunc
+ I SendToModule MyDesk0 ChangeButton desklabel Title $0
The above assumes you have in your FvwmButtons configuration a suitable
button with the id of "desklabel", something like:
*MyDesk0: (1x1, Id desklabel, Title "...")
> 2) I want to keep the current date on the screen (and time as well, but
> time is no problem)
There's numerous FvwmScript examples doing this; see fvwm-themes and
friends.
-- Thomas Adam
