FVWM: FVWM and FireFox browser
I'm trying to configure fvwm (2.5.10 unde SuSE Linux) with two desktops. Desktop 0 should be the main (local) work desktop, desktop 1 should host some permanent outer world applications started at login, like e.g. a VNC viewer to connect to another machine, or a web browser. I've chosen Mozilla Firefox as web browser because of its lightness. However I'm unable to convince it to start in the designated desktop and page (I'm also unable to convince it to start with the window geometry I want, it looks like it ignores any standard X style resource specification on the command line ... and also those regarding initial desktop location). This is an extract from my .fvwm2rc. The part on the VNC viewer works, the part on firefox does not. AddToFunc InitFunction ... + I Exec exec vncviewer -name OldPoseidonVNC -passwd myfile myhost:1 + I Exec firefox http://myhomepage I tried (for firefox) also Exec exec or a -name directive, but with no avail. Style OldPoseidonVNC StartsOnPage 1 1 0, SkipMapping Style firefox Page 1 0 0, SkipMapping, NoPPosition The style for the specific VNC viewer works nicely, but the one for firefox does not (I tried also without NoPPosition, with a -name matching the one in InitFunction, with a name of firefox or firefox-bin ... but all with no avail. Firefox insists in starting in desktop 0. I also noticed that firefox creates a bunch of .gnome related directories. Is there any known incompatibility between firefox and fvwm, or, better, any known trick to start firefox under fvwm in a given desktop ? Thanks in advance Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.mi.iasf.cnr.it/~lucio/personal.html -- Visit the official FVWM web page at URL: http://www.fvwm.org/. To unsubscribe from the list, send unsubscribe fvwm in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FVWM: FVWM and FireFox browser
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:15:17AM +0200, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: However I'm unable to convince it to start in the designated desktop and page (I'm also unable to convince it to start with the window geometry I want, it looks like it ignores any standard X style Firefox, alas, doesn't have a -geometry option. But it does (albeit loosely) try to remember its position when it next loads up. There are a few ways around it to try and coerce it into a fixed position, which I'll discuss below. This is an extract from my .fvwm2rc. The part on the VNC viewer works, the part on firefox does not. AddToFunc InitFunction ... + I Exec exec vncviewer -name OldPoseidonVNC -passwd myfile myhost:1 + I Exec firefox http://myhomepage I tried (for firefox) also Exec exec or a -name directive, but with no avail. Use the Resource of firefox (Gecko) as a more precise match. Style OldPoseidonVNC StartsOnPage 1 1 0, SkipMapping firefox Page 1 0 Style 0, SkipMapping, NoPPosition Style Gecko StartsOnPage 1 0, SkipMapping works for me. I mentioned earlier about geometries. Using a module called FvwmEvent, you can get Fvwm to do things when a condition happens. So for example, you might want to move the firefox window somewhere. Here's what you could do: DestroyModuleConfig Event-FF: * *Event-FF: Cmd Function *Event-FF: PassId *Event-FF: new_window MoveFireFox Whenever a new window is created, fvwm will then call the MoveFireFox function which we can declare as this: DestroyFunc MoveFireFox AddToFunc MoveFireFox + I Any (CurrentDesk !Iconic !AcceptsFocus) \ ThisWindow (Gecko) Move 120p +0p AddToFunc StartFunction I Module FvwmEvent Event-FF For instance. This would then take FireFox and move it to the location specified in pixels. Slightly OTT, but it's possible. :) -- Thomas Adam -- One of us is a cigar stand, and one of us is a lovely blue incandescent guillotine -- Stephen Malkmus, Type Slowly from Brighten The Corners -- Visit the official FVWM web page at URL: http://www.fvwm.org/. To unsubscribe from the list, send unsubscribe fvwm in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FVWM: FVWM and FireFox browser
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 06:58:32PM +0200, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: I'm not sure what are the customs of the FVWM Mailing List, both as general education (do people normally reply to the list, reply individually and cc: the list, reply individually and the original poster has a duty to post a summary) and as software id (I mean, how do I recognize a mail as coming from the list to avoid to filter it as spam, or to filter a personal reply as spam ). One replies to the list, unless someone explicitly requests to be CCed in which case, that's usually honoured. new_window event is not recognized by my version, I had to use add_window That was a mistake on my part -- there never has been an new_window directive -- always add_window. Glad you know about the man page, though. :) DestroyFunc ResizeFireFox AddToFunc ResizeFireFox + I (!Transient) ThisWindow (Gecko) Resize 850p 980p I had to introduce the (!Transient) condition otherwise all the popups by the browser came out as big as my 850x980 page ! Heh. It was just a quick suggestion: + I ThisWindow (Gecko !Transient) Resize 850p 980p ... hmm, actually I'm not sure that my (!Transient) works. I mean, in practice it works (popups are OK) but my .xsession-errors is full of errors No such command (!Transient) ... the same which occurred with PlacedByFvwm. Indeed. See above. It's ThisWindow which needs to know about a) The name/resource/class of the window, and b) Any conditions to apply to it. -- Thomas Adam -- One of us is a cigar stand, and one of us is a lovely blue incandescent guillotine -- Stephen Malkmus, Type Slowly from Brighten The Corners -- Visit the official FVWM web page at URL: http://www.fvwm.org/. To unsubscribe from the list, send unsubscribe fvwm in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
