2008/8/5 Ronald F. Guilmette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I want a "console" xterm window (iconified) in the upper right of > my screen, with a small font. Even though I start up X as an > ordinary non-root user, I want that "console" xterm to be associated > with the system console, i.e. so that I can de-iconify it anytime > I want and look at recent console messages, e.g. if I think I'm > being attacked and want to see recent IPFW firewall messages. > (Yes, I _do_ know that I may have to see the permissions on the > /dev/console very loosely in order to do this as an ordinary user. > That's OK. I don't mind. I'm the only person that uses this system, > ever.)
So you mean xconsole, then? > I'd like all Xterms to be associated with a proper sort of Xterm > icon, like they were in the Old Days. (I just installed fvwm 2.4.0 > from the ports collection on FreeBSD and the Xterm icon seems to no > longer be associated with iconified Xterm windows. What did I do > wrong?) You assumed. That's what's wrong. :P You probably need to copy over your existing .xpm files from your installation. > When I iconify ordinary windows (e.g. Firefox) I'd like them to iconify > into positions along the RIGHT edge of the screen, starting at the top, > just below the iconified console Xterm, and then going down along the > right edge of my screen as I iconify more windows. That's the way that > fvwm 1.x did things, but now, fvwm2 seems to want to iconify by default > things like firefox into the LOWER LEFT corner of my screen. (What did > I do wrong?) You didn't do anything wrong here -- by default unless you change it, the icon placements default to the whole screen. You want to specify the following in your config file: Style * IconBox a b c d, IconFill t r, IconGrid 30 30 I will talk more about this later. > I'd kind-of like the colors of the borders of focused and unfocused > windows to go back to the colors I selected for this with fvwm1, i.e. > a sort of a light gold and a dark gold, respectively. With fvwm2, this > seems to have cheanged into pink and dark grey. (Again, what did I do > wrong?) Nothing. You're not aware of colorsets (in your case via FvwmTheme for FVWM 2.4.20). The way you're specifying the colours now for focused and unfocused windows are obsolete by far. > The only other stuff I really want is a numeric clock and an ordinary > circular clock, someplace towards the bottom right of my screen, a little > Xbiff mail thingy someplace down in that corner (at some convenient > smallish size) and also down in that corner, a couple of buttons that I > can press whenever I want to spawn a new Xterm that will run over on one > or another of the other machines on my network, but that will display > on the screen I'm looking at... the one under control of fvwm. And the default ConfigFvwmButtons file defines something approximating this. >So what say you folks? Will anybody take pity on me and help me? Included > below is (1) my current/old .xinitrc file and (2)my current/old .fvwmrc file > that works OK with fvwm 1.x. (I don't even know where I got most of this > stuff anymore. I probably just hacked around, haphazardly, on example config > files provided with fvwm1 until I kind-of got what I wanted. But even that > was only done years and years ago, and so I've even forgotten how fvwm1 > works!) I will convert your .fvwmrc file to something which works on FVWM 2.5.26 -- and that's final. I am not going to bugger about on 2.4.20 setting up FvwmTheme, etc. You really do want FVWM 2.5.26 -- since you're on one of the *BSDs that's a shame, but I will let you figure out how to install that. :) I will send you an email later after work with a modified file. -- Thomas Adam
