FVWM: Book on fvwm...

2012-03-26 Thread Raspian Belouchi
Howdy, Can anyone tell me what the status of this thread is? http://www.mail-archive.com/fvwm@fvwm.org/msg01393.html It's an old thread, and I recall reading my copy of Linux Unleashed many years ago when they still mentioned fvwm. Given that I am disliking the direction Unity and Gnome are

FVWM: Using fvwm as a lock-down kiosk

2012-03-26 Thread Raspian Belouchi
Howdy all, I am likely going to be updating some public computers in a local library, and have an idea that fvwm could be used to provide limited access to running applications like a web browser, etc. Has anyone here already done such a thing? I'm interested in knowing how far this can be taken

Re: FVWM: Using fvwm as a lock-down kiosk

2012-03-26 Thread Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
Has anyone here already done such a thing? I'm interested in knowing how far this can be taken and if fvwm is a practical choice for this. I did. It's quite straight-forward: replace the menues, mouse bindings and key bindings to do nothing. Use FvwmButtons as an application launcher or run

Re: Bug report - FvwmButtons, stalonetray and DestroyNotify events

2012-03-26 Thread Thomas Adam
On 25 March 2012 16:46, Robert Parlett r.parl...@gmail.com wrote: The naming of the fields in the overlapping structs XAnyEvent and XDestroyWindowEvent is highly misleading, and I can easily see how one could write Event.xany.window, thinking you were getting Event.xdestroywindow.window, but