2009/10/25 Charlie <[email protected]>:
> There has to be more to it than that?
What do you mean? Admittedly, the barrier to entry is:
* You have to be able to read (manpages specifically).
* You have to be able to use an editor.
* You need a brain.
* You might actually need to think.
Now, the last two are somewhat surpassed by the fact there's a load of
examples in man Fvwm{TaskBar,IconMan} which try and make things
obvious. If that's somehow lacking (and I do fail to see why, but
hey-ho), patches welcome.
> I admit not having time to look through much of the documentation, but
> reading snippet and trying a few things out when time permits, But
> things don't work as the man pages describe:
Oh really? I'd love a specific example,
> In Debian testing changing things, like the geometry of the taskbar for
> example, or the colour of the taskbar in the ~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc doesn't do
> anything.
Then you're doing it wrong, although you neither claim *what* you're
changing (is it FvwmTaskBar or FvwmIconMan)? I don't play guessing
games.
> Changing things in the /usr/share/fvwm/ConfigFvwmTaskBar file doesn't
> do anything either. So there are other factors at play.
Fail. You should *NEVER* go touching those files at all. Please.
This is what ~/.fvwm/config is for. So I can now surmise you're
trying to configure FvwmTaskBar -- but you still don't say what
specifically. So no one is going to be able to help you -- all they
can do is guess, and most likely get it wrong.
> There has to be more involved that simply changing something in
> ~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc. Fvwm must be reading from either more relevant files
> than just the two I mentioned above, or another file completely? In
> Debian testing at least.
Nope -- the problem is (alas) between the keyboard and the chair. You
could at least provide your config, then someone can tell you what
you're doing wrong -- and even better -- most likely realise where
your confusion is coming from. But until then...
-- Thomas Adam
