In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you wr ote: >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?
No, A real Xterm window. >> 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. OK, but aren't icons for usual things (e.g. Xterm) part of either fvwm or else the X window system itself? >> 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 Ummm... OK. Obviously. :-) >I will talk more about this later. That will help. >> 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. OK, and to fix it, I do what? >> 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. :) OK, no problem. I can do that. FreeBSD is setup to allow install of either 2.4.0 or else the latesr 2.5.x. I have no problem using 2.5.x. The only reason I didn't start there was because it was said to me non-stable, and comments on the wab site to the effect that "If something breaks with this, we won't help you." >I will send you an email later after work with a modified file. Thank you a LOT!
