Re: [gentoo-user] fvwm: how to begin?
* Pierre-Yves Rofes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [07-01-05 11:42]: Hi, I think starting a new configuration from scratch is a really bad idea. It's boring and it will require hours to have something decent. You'd better to get a working config close from what you want, and then edit it to suit your personal needs and tastes. Yeah, I agree to that. It's easier to adapt the someone's config than start a new one from a scratch mainly beacuse you need to have a picture of what you want from your WM and a right directions to start. I know I should need menu, taskbar and pager, but what to read, where to start from? If you're convicted only to a man pages then that's PITA. It will take hours to figure out what sections of which man pages to read. Written tutorials help a bit, but still it takes quite a lot to become familiar with a simple options. IMHO, fvwm has a lack of the good structured and a heavily cross linked documentation, the one like mutt and mplayer have. There are so many options, available keywords that can't be just bundled in a single man pages. There were also some proposals of the default configuration which is good as a guideline, but I'm sure that it wouldn't present not even the third of the available customizations. So as a result you're ending up with a heavy research of forums, mail lists, available configs, wiki and that takes time... [...] -- Daniel Vrcic -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] fvwm: how to begin?
Hi, I would like to begin configuring fvwm. I use -crystal theme, but my query would be general: Where should I start configuring my new fvwm system? I installed fvwm (2.5.18-r1) + fvwm-crystal (3.0.4) on Gentoo. I want to have something close to this: http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops/Nuno_Alexandre-1600x1200/screenshot.jpg What I really want is: - Transparent/Translucent Windows thumbnails and have them on the right or left side of the screen - Transparent/Translucent Menu - Changing the default fvwm-crystal menu So: - where to begin (What file to edit or create if non existent)? - what parameter-value to provide? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fvwm: how to begin?
On Thu, January 4, 2007 10:54 pm, Rakotomandimby \(R12y\) Mihamina wrote: Hi, I would like to begin configuring fvwm. I use -crystal theme, but my query would be general: Where should I start configuring my new fvwm system? I installed fvwm (2.5.18-r1) + fvwm-crystal (3.0.4) on Gentoo. I want to have something close to this: http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops/Nuno_Alexandre-1600x1200/screenshot.jpg What I really want is: - Transparent/Translucent Windows thumbnails and have them on the right or left side of the screen - Transparent/Translucent Menu - Changing the default fvwm-crystal menu So: - where to begin (What file to edit or create if non existent)? - what parameter-value to provide? Hi, I think starting a new configuration from scratch is a really bad idea. It's boring and it will require hours to have something decent. You'd better to get a working config close from what you want, and then edit it to suit your personal needs and tastes. My FVWM configuration is available at: http://py1378.free.fr/pub/fvwm-conf-04-01-2007.tgz It looks like this: http://www.lynucs.org/index.php?screen_type=1screen_id=213649944543f2f9def2cdfm=screen Most of the parameters used in FVWM are pretty self-explanatory, For example, to change the thumbnails position, you'll have to modify the IconBox style in the Thumbnails section. HTH, -- Pierre-Yves Rofes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
