thomas wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 02:06:49PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: > > I've been using fvwm pretty much exclusively for so long, that I'm > > not sure anymore whether some features are unique to fvwm, or might > > be available elsewhere with different names. > > > > In particular -- the notion of FvwmButtons "swallowing" a child window -- > > is that a feature available in other window managers? It's pretty > > powerful. > > All FvwmButtons is doing is reparenting other windows. Someone would have to > emulate that outside of fvwm (the reason it hasn't been done is because > there's a module <-> fvwm protocol which FvwmButtons uses). > > The closest I know of is the program 'tabbed' from suckless. However, this > doesn't have the same layout options as FvwmButtons does.
Thanks -- and to John, too. It's as I suspected. I've been investigating using other WMs, and the availability of that mechanism would often help. With fvwm, for instance, when I wanted a different clock "applet", I just found a clock program and swallowed it into a button. AFAICT, something like Mate or Cinnamon gives you a clock applet, and that's it. No more choices. paul =---------------------- paul fox, p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma)
