Re: FVWM: two questions about icons

2019-06-06 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message , Lucio Chiappetti wrote: >As you can see fvwm is *completely* customizable (alas, at the expense of >a learning curve, but fully worthwhile for me) Yes, and that's terrific, at least for those who have the time to climb the learning curve. I just don't right now, but I have

Re: FVWM: two questions about icons

2019-06-06 Thread Dan Espen
Lucio Chiappetti writes: > As you see, I agree with the need to have date and time. I never liked > xload graphs, but do like to keep info on things like CPU load, > network traffic etc. in numeric form, and I use procmeter3 for that > (my performance meter FvwmButtons is a list of 17 items with

Re: FVWM: two questions about icons

2019-06-06 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: The default theme for fvwm includes a big box that appears in the lower right hand corner of the screen. Is there a name for that whole thing? I guess it is some instance of a FvwmButtons (there can be more than one, even nested, for instance I

Re: FVWM: two questions about icons

2019-06-05 Thread elliot s
fvwm is a more of a window manager toolkit. You use it to build your own window manager. That used to be more obvious when the default config was really uselessly minimal.

Fwd: FVWM: two questions about icons

2019-06-05 Thread Jaimos Skriletz
(forgot to cc the mailing list) On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 4:30 PM Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > > In message <20190605213540.hmud7pziqi64a6i5@laptop.local>, > Thomas Adam wrote: > > >> For me, 3c was in fact just a blank space. I just now figured out why. On > >> FreeBSD, the xload command is

Re: FVWM: two questions about icons

2019-06-05 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <20190605213540.hmud7pziqi64a6i5@laptop.local>, Thomas Adam wrote: >> For me, 3c was in fact just a blank space. I just now figured out why. On >> FreeBSD, the xload command is in a separate package, all on its own, and that >> package is *not* currently listed as dependency of

Re: FVWM: two questions about icons

2019-06-05 Thread Thomas Adam
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 02:12:07PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > The default theme for fvwm includes a big box that appears in the lower > right hand corner of the screen. Is there a name for that whole thing? > If so, and if someone would be kind enough to tell me what it is, then > I'll

Re: FVWM: two questions about icons

2019-06-05 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message , Lucio Chiappetti wrote: >On Tue, 4 Jun 2019, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > >> Grrr. I can't imagine why this would be so hard. I didn't think >> what I wanted to do would be so complex. Again, I just want a >> digital xclock to appear in the blank space below the xbiff thingy

Re: FVWM: two questions about icons

2019-06-05 Thread Jaimos Skriletz
On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 3:41 AM Lucio Chiappetti wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > > Grrr. I can't imagine why this would be so hard. I didn't think > > what I wanted to do would be so complex. Again, I just want a > > digital xclock to appear in the blank space

Re: FVWM: two questions about icons

2019-06-05 Thread Dan Espen
"Ronald F. Guilmette" writes: > In message , > Dan Espen wrote: > Sorry, for FvwmCommand to work you need this in your config: AddToFunc StartFunction I Module FvwmCommandS > > OK, so now I have the following two commands added to my ~/.fvwm2rc > file and I am still gitting the

Re: FVWM: two questions about icons

2019-06-05 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Tue, 4 Jun 2019, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Grrr. I can't imagine why this would be so hard. I didn't think what I wanted to do would be so complex. Again, I just want a digital xclock to appear in the blank space below the xbiff thingy in the default theme. AFAIK there is no such thing

Re: FVWM: two questions about icons

2019-06-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message , Dan Espen wrote: >>>Sorry, for FvwmCommand to work you need this in your config: >>> >>>AddToFunc StartFunction I Module FvwmCommandS OK, so now I have the following two commands added to my ~/.fvwm2rc file and I am still gitting the same issue, i.e. a big bloated analog xclock

Re: FVWM: two questions about icons

2019-06-04 Thread Dan Espen
"Ronald F. Guilmette" writes: > In message , > Dan Espen wrote: > Style *Firefox EWMHDontDonateIcon, Iconoverride, Icon myfork.xpm Worked for me (with my icon). >>> >>> Ye! Thank you. That seems to have worked for me too. > > (See below. This works also for introducing an

Re: FVWM: two questions about icons

2019-06-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message , Dan Espen wrote: >>>Style *Firefox EWMHDontDonateIcon, Iconoverride, Icon myfork.xpm >>> >>>Worked for me (with my icon). >> >> Ye! Thank you. That seems to have worked for me too. (See below. This works also for introducing an icon to represent Xterm.) >>>When testing

Re: FVWM: two questions about icons

2019-06-04 Thread Dan Espen
"Ronald F. Guilmette" writes: > Sorry for the tardy reply and for being away from email for the past > few days. > > > In message , > Dan Espen wrote: > >>Style *Firefox EWMHDontDonateIcon, Iconoverride, Icon myfork.xpm >> >>Worked for me (with my icon). > > Ye! Thank you. That seems

Re: FVWM: two questions about icons

2019-06-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
Sorry for the tardy reply and for being away from email for the past few days. In message , Dan Espen wrote: >Style *Firefox EWMHDontDonateIcon, Iconoverride, Icon myfork.xpm > >Worked for me (with my icon). Ye! Thank you. That seems to have worked for me too. >Not sure if the

Re: FVWM: two questions about icons

2019-05-31 Thread Dan Espen
"Ronald F. Guilmette" writes: > In message > > Jaimos Skriletz wrote: > >>If you don't like the icon provided by the application you can >>configure fvwm to use custom icons via the Icon Style (or >>WindowStyle). For example if you find a firefox icon and put it in >>your ImagePath, you can