First of all my apologies if I'm asking in the wrong place, I was a
member of the mailing list <f...@fvwm.org>, but some times after my last
posting (a few years ago) I received nothing. I assumed recently that the
list was replaced by the forum, but since registration to the forum is
barred by a totally ununderstandable question (!), I checked the archives
and I realized the list is still mildly active ... but has changed
address, so I re-subscribed.
I am in the process of revamping all my fvwm configuration, I re-read all
the man pages (incidentally the web based ones are excellent as ease of
access) and decided to try some of the modules I so far skipped (and
FvwmConsole is a great way to test things.
What I want to do so far is the following (for one I have a working
solution but there may be better ones, for the other I have just ideas)
1) I want to keep (e.g. in the lower left corner of my screen) a text
label with the desktop number or name
After some experiments, I think the best is to use FvwmButtons
I define a transparent color set
Colorset 10 Transparent,Fore White
then for each desktop I define a FvwmButtons like this (only I
call them 0,1,2 ...)
Style MyDesk0 StartsOnDesk 0, SkipMapping,NoTitle,WindowListSkip,
!Borders,!Handles,ParentalRelativity,StickyAcrossPages,
!StickyAcrossDesks,StaysOnBottom
DestroyModuleConfig MyDesk0*
*MyDesk0: (Title "desk 0", Action Nop)
*MyDesk0: Colorset 10
Module FvwmButtons -g -0-0 MyDesk0
Each one has hardcoded the desk number (or potentially name).
I hoped I could use $[desk.n] as a dynamic content. but I found with
some disappointment that it is the current desk at the moment the
button or menu or whatever is created.
Is there any smarter solution (with a single fvwmbutton or other
widget for all desks, which displays the current desk number as soon
as one moves to it ?)
2) I want to keep the current date on the screen (and time as well, but
time is no problem)
In my old configuration I do this already, I stick in a corner of the
screen, one above the other, two applications.
- one is a xdaliclock with the (hh:mm:ss) time (no title, etc.)
- the other one is a rclock with a geometry of 150x1-0+12, so the
display of the analog clock is suppressed, and the date is shown
in the window title bar
what I wanted to do now was to collect the two clocks, together with
other things like the FvwmPager and some other stuff, into a
FvwmButtons.
The xdaliclock is swallowed nicely (so time is no problem), but
rclock is not usable, because the window title does not exist for
swallowed windows.
So far I replaced the rclock button (in the FvwmButtons MyBox) with a
Piperead from a shell script which does a silly
echo *MyBox: \(1x1, Back rgb:99/00/00, Fore White,
Title \"`date "+%a %b %d"`\", Action Nop\)
This is very economic (no additional X applications) but of course
works but loads the date of the moment FvwmButtons is invoked
(currently from FvwmConsole and later at fvwm startup)
Since I usually leave the machine logged in for several days, of
course this date will no longer be valid on the next day
Is there a smart way to have a button periodically refresh its
content ?
I thought of some at command or better crontab, which could use
FvwmCommand to tell fvwm to KillModule FvwmButtons Mybox and
invoke it again (may be with a dedicated function) ...
... or I could just use the fvwm restart I already have
Any smarter solution ?
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