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: another question about desktops

2015-01-21 Thread Thomas Adam
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 04:54:31PM +0100, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: Would it be possible to use the FvwmPager to show only the first page of each 2x2 or 1x2 desktop (and consider the rest as hidden reserved space which can be reached scrolling) ? No, the paget will always show the configured

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

FVWM: another question about desktops

2015-01-21 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
So far (in the last 10 years or so !!) I've been using the following mental model when dealing with fvwm desktops and pages A page is a screen where I keep the terminals, editors, analysis tools I need for a particular sub-activity (say analysing the spectra of a particular source, or

FVWM: best way to update a button or menu item

2015-01-21 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
First of all my apologies if I'm asking in the wrong place, I was a member of the mailing list f...@fvwm.org, but some times after my last posting (a few years ago) I received nothing. I assumed recently that the list was replaced by the forum, but since registration to the forum is barred by

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