Re: FVWM: FVWM : how to echo a string to current window ?

2005-10-14 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Fernando Poza Saura wrote: An idea. If you are executing a ssesion in a remote host, that means [...] And then, if all the previous suppositions are ok, you could add an alias in one of those files associating any key with your complex command (commands). You know:

FVWM: FVWM and Linux SuSE

2005-03-29 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
the statements which generate them ? - any other hint ? Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.mi.iasf.cnr.it/~lucio/personal.html

FVWM: FVWM and FireFox browser

2005-03-29 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
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

FVWM: double click in fvwm ?

2005-03-31 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
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Re: FVWM: SPAM Available

2005-04-22 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
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Re: FVWM: turn off FvwmButtons

2005-04-28 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
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FVWM: fvwm, SuSE, backing store

2005-05-27 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
(and it does not mention backing store). Any clue ? Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.mi.iasf.cnr.it/~lucio/personal.html

Summary Re: FVWM: fvwm, SuSE, backing store

2005-05-30 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
degradation (so far not). Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) L'Italia ripudia la guerra [...] comeItaly

Re: FVWM: Fvwm forum replacing the mailing list

2006-01-30 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
to a mailing list which is gatewayed with a NG, and just for that reason use a dedicated nospam account to post to it ! Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.iasf

FVWM: acroread window problem

2006-03-08 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
page, but I'd prefer to have it on front in the same page. Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html

Re: FVWM: acroread window problem

2006-03-08 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
window which asks me whether I want to save to disk or display with is a transient of firefox, but acroread should be a totally separated application, I presume) Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133

Re: FVWM: acroread window problem

2006-03-28 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
? Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html

Re: FVWM: acroread window problem

2006-03-28 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: What happens is that, when I click on the pdf URL, firefox first correctly displays the Opening something.pdf transient window, then the acroread window pops up and disappears under the firefox window. which is inconvenient when the firefox

Re: FVWM: Background window

2006-03-31 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
on other machines, and use the pager to revert to local screens. Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html

Re: FVWM: add to root menu

2006-04-03 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Wendell Turner wrote: Is there an easy way to add a custom entry to the beginning of the root menu? In my .fvm2rc (I'm almost the only one FVWM user in a mainly KDE place), which is based on the one distributed with Suse 9.2, I've done something slightly beyond i.e.

Re: FVWM: Focus behavior, like KDE

2006-04-06 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
in the title bar, but I guess that would be more a matter of taste (I did simplify it even in mwm), so I won't report this here. Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http

Re: FVWM: How to start several Desktops?

2006-09-25 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
run the server end on Linux), but this is OT here. Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html

Re: FVWM: Locales problem in a menu script

2006-09-28 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
do that (in sh syntax because of the SSI include directives) e.g. in http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/WWW/Personal/timezones.html !--#exec cmd=TZ=:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Atlantic/Reykjavik ; export TZ ; date-- Lucio

Re: FVWM: FVWM should be shipped with...

2007-03-14 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
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Re: FVWM: Labelling windows in the FvwmPager

2007-04-04 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
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Re: FVWM: Labelling windows in the FvwmPager

2007-04-05 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Parv wrote: wrote Lucio Chiappetti thusly... while for moving windows the most frequent way for me is to stick it to all pages and desks, change page, then eventually unstick it. Second choice is drag in the pager. Yet another way, similar to (un)sticking

Re: Sticky Icons (was: FVWM: Labelling windows in the FvwmPager)

2007-04-05 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
SlipperyIcon. Is it a typo ? Corrected in later versions ? -- Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html

Re: FVWM: Beginners-Infos /Example-Files(simple,please) ?

2007-04-17 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
ago) is improving the readability of the long man page (using hypertext tricks and classifying the plethora of features by topic). -- Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info

Re: FVWM: Beginners-Infos /Example-Files(simple,please) ?

2007-04-18 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
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Re: FVWM: Beginners-Infos /Example-Files(simple,please) ?

2007-04-19 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
+ Nop + ScreenLockExec xlock + ScreenSaver Exec xlock -nolock + Restart Fvwm2 Restart + Exit (Logout) Quit -- Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.iasf

Re: FVWM: Beginners-Infos /Example-Files(simple,please) ?

2007-04-24 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
, by increasing complication, by examples) and providing lots of cross reference links is a better reference. Is that a book ? If yes, it can be indeed very useful. -- Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133

Re: Fw: Re: FVWM: Beginners how to

2007-10-02 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
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Re: FVWM: Pros and cons of different ways of starting fvwm

2007-10-03 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
system administration tool). This way I diverge from the local standard, but not much. -- --- Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html

Re: FVWM: Icon Placement

2007-10-30 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
this in my rc file Style * IconBox -20 0 -1 -1 , IconFill bottom right and the icons go on bottom right. While my clock and pager is on top right (yes, I like 1280x1024 screens) -- --- Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via

Re: FVWM: starting application on specific page

2007-11-08 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
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Re: FVWM: dragging windows inside the pager

2007-11-27 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for not bringing it up earlier. It is more like it does not work, and then - now twice - I see it work for very brief periods of time. I am pretty sure it's not numlock - it is one of the first things I Did you try testing the mouse behaviour

Re: FVWM: interference firefox/acroread and fvwm on suse 11.3

2010-12-17 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
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Re: FVWM: interference firefox/acroread and fvwm on suse 11.3

2010-12-17 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
everywhere. Sometimes used xpdf for newer files which made the old acroread fail. But I do not like that much the look of the more recent acroread so it would be a good moment to switch. -- Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via

Re: FVWM: interference firefox/acroread and fvwm on suse 11.3

2010-12-17 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: I've tried a xwininfo (under fvmw) on both the old and new system (*) and for both I get Visual Class: TrueColor. The old one (suse 9.2) however gives Depth: 16, and the new one Depth: 24 ... will THAT make a difference? Apparently not. Found

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 Lucio Chiappetti
with a crontab, so it is a waste to keep there a process for something which occurs once a day. -- Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio

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
? -- Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html Do not like Firefox =29 ? Get Pale Moon ! http

FVWM: best way to update a button or menu item

2015-01-21 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
restart I already have Any smarter solution ? -- Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html

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

2015-01-21 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
-- Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html Do not like Firefox =29 ? Get Pale Moon ! http://www.palemoon.org

Re: System clock in FVWM: A new discovery!

2015-04-21 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
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Re: FVWM: Is there a way to ignore other windows when placing one?

2015-10-19 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
do not use all of them with the same frequency (see http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/WWW/Opinions/window.html for screenshots and links to examples) -- Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano

Re: FVWM: One more question...

2019-05-31 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
(some examples of mine are in the link in signature) -- Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Corti 12 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/WWW/Opinions/window.html

FVWM: a problem of .login starting fvwm (migration suse-ubuntu)

2021-09-14 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
us setting my environment) while ubuntu starts fvwm ignoring my login shell choices. How can I either change this order, or instruct fvwm under ubuntu so that it sets up a basic environment which is then inherited by all child shells (in xterm, urxvt or whatever) ? Thanks -- Lucio Chiappe

Re: FVWM: a problem of .login starting fvwm (migration suse-ubuntu)

2021-11-13 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Sun, 14 Nov 2021, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 14Sep2021 15:36, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: I am migrating (actually, configuring a new PC) from opensuse 42.3 to xubuntu 20.04.3. Thanks for your interest. In the meanhile I arranged an acceptable workaround. Apparently ALL of the .login