Re: FVWM: best way to update a button or menu item

2015-01-21 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Wed, 21 Jan 2015, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: 2) I want to keep the current date on the screen (and time as well, but time is no problem) Is there a smart way to have a button periodically refresh its content ? thanks to the previous hint to SendToModule ... ChangeButton my

Re: FVWM: best way to update a button or menu item

2015-01-21 Thread Chris Siebenmann
2) I want to keep the current date on the screen (and time as well, but time is no problem) In my old configuration I do this already, I stick in a corner of the screen, one above the other, two applications. - one is a xdaliclock with the (hh:mm:ss) time (no title, etc.)

Re: FVWM: best way to update a button or menu item

2015-01-21 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Wed, 21 Jan 2015, Chris Siebenmann wrote: 2) I want to keep the current date on the screen You want the old standby 'xclock', specifically 'xclock -digital' (possibly with '-strftime' as well Don't know why I junked it with a don't like back in 2006. As a clock I rather liked Jamie

Re: FVWM: best way to update a button or menu item

2015-01-21 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Wed, 21 Jan 2015, Thomas Adam wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 02:23:21PM +0100, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2015, Thomas Adam wrote: This is why you use FvwmEvent and the SendToModule directive: DestroyModuleConfig FE-UpdateDeskNum *FE-UpdateDeskNum: new_desk

Re: FVWM: best way to update a button or menu item

2015-01-21 Thread Thomas Adam
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

Re: FVWM: best way to update a button or menu item

2015-01-21 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Wed, 21 Jan 2015, Thomas Adam wrote: 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

Re: FVWM: best way to update a button or menu item

2015-01-21 Thread Thomas Adam
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 02:23:21PM +0100, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2015, Thomas Adam wrote: This is why you use FvwmEvent and the SendToModule directive: DestroyModuleConfig FE-UpdateDeskNum *FE-UpdateDeskNum: new_desk NewFunc AddToFunc StartFunction I