Re: mplayer and fvwm-crystal
William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com writes: IIUC, you mean the mplayer window comes up without decorations by default. So kwin must have added decorations forcefully. I ran fvwm, fluxbox, and fvwm-crystal (in Xephyr) and crystal is the only one without decorations. I read a little about it and it appears to be intentional, although I'm not sure where to change it. Try the fvwm-crystal documentation, if there is any. Wow, thanks for all the effort! Now I need to look into fvwm-crystals configuration more closely to figure this out. I'll let you know if I find something. -- html messages are obsolete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87zkkq46qn@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: mplayer and fvwm-crystal
William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com writes: On 07/04/11 at 10:45pm, lee wrote: Hi, what might be the reason for mplayer to come up without window decorations on fvwm-crystal? mplayer is a command-line tool. If you wish to control it primarily via GUI, use gmplayer or kmplayer, which is an mplayer wrapper application. Its window always had decorations when running it with KDE. I don't need the GUI to control mplayer because I'm using the keyboard to do that. It's inconvenient not being able to move the mplayer window because it doesn't have decorations. So either there's some setting of fvwm-crystal that turns off the decorations and which I couldn't find, or the default for mplayer is to create a window that doesn't have decorations (if that is something the application creating the window can decide). Are you suggesting that the default for mplayers windows is not to have decorations? -- html messages are obsolete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k4bvwwso@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: mplayer and fvwm-crystal
On 07/06/11 at 12:03pm, lee wrote: William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com writes: On 07/04/11 at 10:45pm, lee wrote: Hi, what might be the reason for mplayer to come up without window decorations on fvwm-crystal? mplayer is a command-line tool. If you wish to control it primarily via GUI, use gmplayer or kmplayer, which is an mplayer wrapper application. Its window always had decorations when running it with KDE. I don't need the GUI to control mplayer because I'm using the keyboard to do that. It's inconvenient not being able to move the mplayer window because it doesn't have decorations. Most window managers accept alt-rightclick for resizes, and alt-leftclick for moves (I am only suggesting as an interim solution) So either there's some setting of fvwm-crystal that turns off the decorations and which I couldn't find, or the default for mplayer is to create a window that doesn't have decorations (if that is something the application creating the window can decide). Check your .fvwm2rc for an mplayer entry, or the system-wide config file at /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc Are you suggesting that the default for mplayers windows is not to have decorations? I haven't run a 'decorations-setting' WM in years, sorry. My recollection has always been of mplayer without them. -- Liam signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: mplayer and fvwm-crystal
William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com writes: On 07/06/11 at 12:03pm, lee wrote: William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com writes: [...] mplayer is a command-line tool. If you wish to control it Its window always had decorations when running it with KDE. Most window managers accept alt-rightclick for resizes, and alt-leftclick for moves (I am only suggesting as an interim solution) Hey cool, I didn't know that. It works with fvwm-crystal, too :) Only it's not very convenient because I'm using a trackball with my left hand. Perhaps I can reconfigure fvwm2 to use the AltGr key instead. So either there's some setting of fvwm-crystal that turns off the decorations and which I couldn't find, or the default for mplayer is to create a window that doesn't have decorations (if that is something the application creating the window can decide). Check your .fvwm2rc for an mplayer entry, or the system-wide config file at /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc Yep, that was the first thing I did and didn't find anything. Are you suggesting that the default for mplayers windows is not to have decorations? I haven't run a 'decorations-setting' WM in years, sorry. My recollection has always been of mplayer without them. IIUC, you mean the mplayer window comes up without decorations by default. So kwin must have added decorations forcefully. -- html messages are obsolete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87aacrz1vi@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: mplayer and fvwm-crystal
On 07/06/11 at 08:43pm, lee wrote: William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com writes: On 07/06/11 at 12:03pm, lee wrote: William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com writes: Are you suggesting that the default for mplayers windows is not to have decorations? I haven't run a 'decorations-setting' WM in years, sorry. My recollection has always been of mplayer without them. IIUC, you mean the mplayer window comes up without decorations by default. So kwin must have added decorations forcefully. I ran fvwm, fluxbox, and fvwm-crystal (in Xephyr) and crystal is the only one without decorations. I read a little about it and it appears to be intentional, although I'm not sure where to change it. Try the fvwm-crystal documentation, if there is any. -- Liam signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: mplayer and fvwm-crystal
On 07/04/11 at 10:45pm, lee wrote: Hi, what might be the reason for mplayer to come up without window decorations on fvwm-crystal? I've searched through the configuration files of fvwm2 and didn't find an entry about it. Is this a default or is it something in my settings? Or is it something that mplayer does? There seems to be a choice between gmplayer and kmplayer in fvwm-crystal. I've tried gmplayer, and it comes up with window decorations. mplayer is a command-line tool. If you wish to control it primarily via GUI, use gmplayer or kmplayer, which is an mplayer wrapper application. -- Liam signature.asc Description: Digital signature
mplayer and fvwm-crystal
Hi, what might be the reason for mplayer to come up without window decorations on fvwm-crystal? I've searched through the configuration files of fvwm2 and didn't find an entry about it. Is this a default or is it something in my settings? Or is it something that mplayer does? There seems to be a choice between gmplayer and kmplayer in fvwm-crystal. I've tried gmplayer, and it comes up with window decorations. -- html messages are obsolete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d3hpzsfm@yun.yagibdah.de
