Re: FVWM: fvwm3?

2024-02-03 Thread Mandar Mitra
Lucio Chiappetti wrote (Sat, Feb 03, 2024 at 01:53:29PM +0100): > I hope to be able to go on with Xorg until I live. Amen! :-)

Re: FVWM: FVWM3: 2 monitors with different geometries?

2023-12-23 Thread Mandar Mitra
Jaimos Skriletz wrote (Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 12:45:34PM -0700): > Yes, you can have different resolutions. I think you may run into > issues using DesktopConfiguration shared with different resolutions, > but DesktopConfiguration per-monitor will work just fine. FVWM3 installation went without a

Re: FVWM: FVWM3: 2 monitors with different geometries?

2023-12-22 Thread Mandar Mitra
Jaimos Skriletz wrote (Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 12:45:34PM -0700): > On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 9:42 AM Mandar Mitra wrote: > > > > > > Browsing around FVWM3's git repo, and looking at > > https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3/blob/main/dev-docs/NEW-COMMANDS.md#hierarchy-and-speci

FVWM: FVWM3: 2 monitors with different geometries?

2023-12-22 Thread Mandar Mitra
I have a laptop with a 1366x768 screen (say Screen1), and a 1920x1080 monitor (say Screen2) connected to it (via HDMI or VGA). Browsing around FVWM3's git repo, and looking at https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3/blob/main/dev-docs/NEW-COMMANDS.md#hierarchy-and-specification in particular, it

Re: FVWM: emulating mouse button 2 on HP touchpad

2023-05-15 Thread Mandar Mitra
Lucio Chiappetti wrote (Sun, May 14, 2023 at 11:11:41PM +0200): > This has nothing to do with xdotool. If in ANOTHER terminal I do > > sleep 5; xdotool click 2 > > and then qjuickly enough move the mouse to an xterm, the MB1 selection *is* > pasted. But of course this is a bit clumsy. > > So

Re: FVWM: emulating mouse button 2 on HP touchpad

2023-05-15 Thread Mandar Mitra
Lucio Chiappetti wrote (Sat, May 13, 2023 at 11:44:36PM +0200): > I am since ages a keen fvwm user (2.6.8 bundled with ubuntu), mostly on a > desktop PC, with a personal configuration described in > http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/WWW/Opinions/window.html. > > In particular (independently

Re: FVWM: Alt-Tab and WindowList

2021-02-16 Thread Mandar Mitra
> Maybe you could try to figure out some reproducable instructions > to make that happen (preferrably with a minimal config). Yes, let me try this. > Have you tried using multiple pages? For example, I use six (2x3) I started with 2x3 and I'm now at 2x4. The clutter usually happens because I

Re: FVWM: Alt-Tab and WindowList

2021-02-15 Thread Mandar Mitra
Mark Nejedlo wrote (Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:15:41PM -0600): > On Mon, Feb 15, 2021, at 9:55 AM, Mandar Mitra wrote: > > The alternative you suggested won't help me, because I was looking to > > address precisely the situation when I have a page "cluttered with many > &

Re: FVWM: Alt-Tab and WindowList

2021-02-15 Thread Mandar Mitra
Dominik Vogt wrote (Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 12:05:26PM +0100): > Try running just > > WindowList (currentpage) > > from FvwmConsole and see if that works as expected. > > The ordering of that list entirely depends on the order in which > windows are focused. If that results in a weird ordering,

Re: FVWM: Trouble with transient windows

2021-02-13 Thread Mandar Mitra
Thomas Adam wrote (Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 03:38:16PM +): > On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 08:22:16PM +0530, Mandar Mitra wrote: > > I would like the transient windows to not affect focus at all. I looked at > > the manual page for the FPGrabFocusTransient, FPGra

FVWM: Alt-Tab and WindowList

2021-02-13 Thread Mandar Mitra
I have Alt-Tab bound as follows: Key Tab A M WindowList (CurrentPage) CurrentAtEnd,IconifiedAtEnd,...,SelectOnRelease Alt_L I'd like windows to be listed in most recently used order, and there are a number of fvwm related Web pages that state that is what "normally" happens, but what I'm

FVWM: Trouble with transient windows

2021-02-13 Thread Mandar Mitra
Hi, I suppose I'm having trouble correctly understanding the options for transient windows. Here's the scenario in which I'd like fvwm to behave differently. I have 3 windows on a page: emacs, a pdf viewer, and ipe (for drawing diagrams). Ipe sometimes pops up a little window (only borders, no

Re: FVWM: FvwmForm replaces FvwmPrompt (fvwm 2.0.41)

2020-08-29 Thread Mandar Mitra
Since this thread has gotten quite chatty: Thomas Adam wrote (Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 04:02:07PM +0100): > I did reply back to him -- he wishes us all well, and is delighted that fvwm > is still continuing. I can't help wondering aloud what Drew Moseley uses now. I used to be a twm user at that

Re: FVWM: Zoom whiteboard and fvwm

2020-08-07 Thread Mandar Mitra
Dov Grobgeld wrote (Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 07:02:34PM +0300): > I can confirm that the Whiteboard indeed works now. Thanks! But, I still > don't get the floating toolbar unless I first run the whiteboard and then > switch the sharing to another window. You mean the one with various options for the

Re: FVWM: Zoom whiteboard and fvwm

2020-08-07 Thread Mandar Mitra
Hmmm, I'm not sure what has changed, but the instructions I had written about earlier (from https://forum.manjaro.org/t/zoom-whiteboard-does-not-work/131178) seem to be working now. Specifically: 1. Start Zoom. 2. Run "xcompmgr -c -l0 -t0 -r0 -o.00" in a terminal. 3. Start the whiteboard. I can

FVWM: Zoom whiteboard and fvwm

2020-07-06 Thread Mandar Mitra
Like many other people, I have had to start using Zoom. I couldn't get the whiteboard to work, so I (blindly) followed the tips given here: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/zoom-whiteboard-does-not-work/131178 Now the whiteboard works partially: text and a few other annotations work, but general

FVWM: left and right control keys behaving differently

2020-06-22 Thread Mandar Mitra
I'm running fvwm 2.6.7-3 on Linux Mint 19.2, and have the following in my .fvwm2rc for scrolling with the keyboard: Key LeftA CM Scroll -100 0 Key Right A CM Scroll +100 +0 Key DownA CM Scroll +0 +100 Key Up A CM Scroll

Re: FVWM: appearance

2019-01-03 Thread Mandar Mitra
Oleg Tyurin wrote (Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 12:19:53AM +0400): > Hi. Please help me understand how to configure application appearance > properly. > After fresh install of FVWM2 I had an appearance according to screenshot1. > Next, probably after install of something an appearance had > been