Re: CVS migo: * FvwmButtons: new button option Id

2002-08-26 Thread Mikhael Goikhman
On 25 Aug 2002 22:45:13 -0500, FVWM CVS wrote:
 
 Log message:
 * FvwmButtons: new button option Id
 * FvwmButtons: new dynamical messages ChangeButton and ExpandButtonVars

The old undocumented SendToModule syntax is removed. Instead, use
something like:

  *FvwmButtons: (Id note1, Title 13:30 - Dinner, Icon dinner.xpm)

  SendToModule FvwmButtons ChangeButton note1 \
  Title 18:00 - Go Home, Icon go.xpm

You don't need to always define Id, the old-style id (number or +x+y)
works as usual.

The ExpandButtonVars is intended to expand $title, $icon and similar in
the button context, but currently it only expands $bg, $top, $left etc.

  -SendToModule FvwmButtons ExpandButtonVars note1 \
  Exec xmessage The current title: $title, fg: $fg

Regards,
Mikhael.
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CVS domivogt: * -Wall fix.

2002-08-26 Thread FVWM CVS
CVSROOT:/home/cvs/fvwm
Module name:fvwm
Changes by: domivogt02/08/26 04:22:48

Modified files:
modules: ChangeLog 
modules/FvwmButtons: dynamic.c 

Log message:
* -Wall fix.

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CVS domivogt: * Fixed typos.

2002-08-26 Thread FVWM CVS
CVSROOT:/home/cvs/fvwm
Module name:fvwm
Changes by: domivogt02/08/26 06:48:23

Modified files:
docs   : DEVELOPERS 

Log message:
* Fixed typos.

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CVS domivogt: * Fixed (?) snapshot building.

2002-08-26 Thread FVWM CVS
CVSROOT:/home/cvs/fvwm
Module name:fvwm
Changes by: domivogt02/08/26 07:00:16

Modified files:
docs   : DEVELOPERS 
modules: ChangeLog 
modules/FvwmButtons: dynamic.c 

Log message:
* Fixed (?) snapshot building.

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Problems building snap-20020826

2002-08-26 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
? fvwm-snap-20020523.tar.gz
? fvwm-snap-20020524.tar.gz
P docs/DEVELOPERS
P modules/ChangeLog
P modules/FvwmButtons/dynamic.c
configure.in:423: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:470: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:487: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:674: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:818: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:857: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:872: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:877: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:423: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:470: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:487: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:674: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:818: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:857: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:872: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:877: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking whether to enable command logging... no
checking whether to enable debugging messages... no
checking whether to enable fancy pixmap titlebars... yes
checking imagepath... /usr/include/X11/bitmaps:/usr/include/X11/pixmaps
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E
checking for POSIXized ISC... no
checking for minix/config.h... (cached) no
checking for X... (cached) libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers /usr/X11R6/include
checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet... (cached) no
checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet_stub... (cached) no
checking for gethostbyname... (cached) yes
checking for connect... (cached) yes
checking for remove... (cached) yes
checking for shmat... (cached) yes
checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... (cached) yes
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking whether to enable GNOME window manager hints... yes
checking whether to enable Extended WM Hints Support... yes
checking for SmcOpenConnection in -lSM... yes
checking for XShapeQueryExtension in -lXext... yes
checking for XineramaIsActive in -lXinerama... yes
checking whether to enable Xinerama emulation on one screen (useful only for 
developers)... no
checking for XRenderComposite in -lXrender... yes
checking for freetype-config... (cached) no
checking for FreeType - version = 6.1.0... no
*** The freetype-config script installed by FreeType 2 could not be found.
*** If FreeType 2 was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the FT2_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to freetype-config.
checking for XpmReadFileToXpmImage in -lXpm... yes
checking for X11/xpm.h... yes
checking for Xpm 3.4g or better... yes
checking for png_read_info in -lpng... yes
checking for png.h... yes
checking for libpng 1.0.4a or better... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... (cached) no
checking for rplay_create in -lrplay... no
checking for stroke_init in -lstroke... no
checking with termcap... checking for readline in -lreadline... no
checking with ncurses... checking for readline in -lreadline... yes
checking for readline/history.h... yes
checking for _Xsetlocale in -lX11... (cached) no
checking for XOpenOM in -lX11... (cached) yes
checking for libiconv_open in -liconv... (cached) no
checking for iconv_open... (cached) yes
checking check if second arg of iconv is const... no
checking for nl_langinfo (CODESET)... yes
checking for fribidi-config... no
checking for stdarg.h... (cached) yes
checking for vfprintf... (cached) yes
checking for waitpid... (cached) yes
checking for cpp... (cached) /usr/bin/cpp
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for perl... (cached) /usr/local/bin/perl
checking for 

Re: CVS domivogt: * Fixed (?) snapshot building.

2002-08-26 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
 FC == FVWM CVS fvwm-workers@fvwm.org writes:

FC Fixed (?) snapshot building.

I tried to push another snapshot but ran into the same error.

 - J
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CVS migo: * another attempt to work around a buggy X11/extensions/shape.h

2002-08-26 Thread FVWM CVS
CVSROOT:/home/cvs/fvwm
Module name:fvwm
Changes by: migo02/08/26 09:39:29

Modified files:
.  : ChangeLog NEWS 
docs   : ANNOUNCE 
modules: ChangeLog 
modules/FvwmButtons: dynamic.c 

Log message:
* another attempt to work around a buggy X11/extensions/shape.h
* NEWS: mention FvwmButtons additions and TitleStyle MultiPixmap (post-factum)
* added ANNOUNCE for 2.5.3 (post-factum)

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Re: CVS domivogt: * Fixed (?) snapshot building.

2002-08-26 Thread Mikhael Goikhman
On 26 Aug 2002 09:29:28 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
 
  FC == FVWM CVS fvwm-workers@fvwm.org writes:
 
 FC Fixed (?) snapshot building.
 
 I tried to push another snapshot but ran into the same error.

Actually, the errors are not the same.
Can you make another run?

Regards,
Mikhael.
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Problems building snap-20020826

2002-08-26 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
? fvwm-snap-20020523.tar.gz
? fvwm-snap-20020524.tar.gz
P ChangeLog
P NEWS
P docs/ANNOUNCE
P modules/ChangeLog
P modules/FvwmButtons/dynamic.c
configure.in:423: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:470: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:487: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:674: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:818: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:857: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:872: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:877: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:423: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:470: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:487: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:674: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:818: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:857: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:872: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:877: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking whether to enable command logging... no
checking whether to enable debugging messages... no
checking whether to enable fancy pixmap titlebars... yes
checking imagepath... /usr/include/X11/bitmaps:/usr/include/X11/pixmaps
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E
checking for POSIXized ISC... no
checking for minix/config.h... (cached) no
checking for X... (cached) libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers /usr/X11R6/include
checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet... (cached) no
checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet_stub... (cached) no
checking for gethostbyname... (cached) yes
checking for connect... (cached) yes
checking for remove... (cached) yes
checking for shmat... (cached) yes
checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... (cached) yes
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking whether to enable GNOME window manager hints... yes
checking whether to enable Extended WM Hints Support... yes
checking for SmcOpenConnection in -lSM... yes
checking for XShapeQueryExtension in -lXext... yes
checking for XineramaIsActive in -lXinerama... yes
checking whether to enable Xinerama emulation on one screen (useful only for 
developers)... no
checking for XRenderComposite in -lXrender... yes
checking for freetype-config... (cached) no
checking for FreeType - version = 6.1.0... no
*** The freetype-config script installed by FreeType 2 could not be found.
*** If FreeType 2 was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the FT2_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to freetype-config.
checking for XpmReadFileToXpmImage in -lXpm... yes
checking for X11/xpm.h... yes
checking for Xpm 3.4g or better... yes
checking for png_read_info in -lpng... yes
checking for png.h... yes
checking for libpng 1.0.4a or better... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... (cached) no
checking for rplay_create in -lrplay... no
checking for stroke_init in -lstroke... no
checking with termcap... checking for readline in -lreadline... no
checking with ncurses... checking for readline in -lreadline... yes
checking for readline/history.h... yes
checking for _Xsetlocale in -lX11... (cached) no
checking for XOpenOM in -lX11... (cached) yes
checking for libiconv_open in -liconv... (cached) no
checking for iconv_open... (cached) yes
checking check if second arg of iconv is const... no
checking for nl_langinfo (CODESET)... yes
checking for fribidi-config... no
checking for stdarg.h... (cached) yes
checking for vfprintf... (cached) yes
checking for waitpid... (cached) yes
checking for cpp... (cached) /usr/bin/cpp
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for perl... (cached) 

CVS migo: * add more includes to satisfy X11/extensions/shape.h

2002-08-26 Thread FVWM CVS
CVSROOT:/home/cvs/fvwm
Module name:fvwm
Changes by: migo02/08/26 11:22:46

Modified files:
modules/FvwmButtons: dynamic.c 

Log message:
* add more includes to satisfy X11/extensions/shape.h

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Re: Problems building snap-20020826

2002-08-26 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
BTW, the machine I'm building on runs Red Hat 7.1, and has XFree86
4.0.3 installed.  I know it's old but I expect that others would run
into the same issue.

 - J
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FVWM: Multipixel titlebar

2002-08-26 Thread Christian Lyra

HI,

Last weekend I tried the last snapshot since I was curious about what 
was 
happening, what is new. And what a surprise! Multipixel titlebar is working 
again!!! Kudos to Suzanne (who wrote the first patch) and the fvwm developers 
that put the patch in the development tree.
BTW I think this deserve a note in the Changelog :-)


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Re: FVWM: .fvwm2rc syntax guide?

2002-08-26 Thread Imre Vida
 On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 08:29:50PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
  Are you aware that you can start fvwm with no config file at all,
  press F1 or any mouse button on the root window and fvwm will
  offer to create a few different configurations for you?
 
 yes, it is mentioned in the man
 but it appears at line 365 in a very 
 modest 2 line sentence (context: .fvwm2rc).  
 it is repeated in a somewhat more extended 
 version at ~1100 (Built in KM Bindings).
 
 while I agree that structurally these are 
 apropriate locations, i believe not many
 newbies can spot and pick up the message
 (i personally missed them when first read/
 scanned through the manual. mind you it is 
 8000+ lines of heavy text).
 
 I think it would be helpful to 
 - to put a To the Impatient setion at the very 
 begining of the man with this info
 - mention this also in one of the INSTALL and/or 
 README files (e.g. README.sysrc).
 
 

 imre

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Re: FVWM: .fvwm2rc syntax guide?

2002-08-26 Thread szonyi calin
 --- Imre Vida [EMAIL PROTECTED] a
écrit :   On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 08:29:50PM -0400,
Dan Espen
 wrote:
   Are you aware that you can start fvwm with no
 config file at all,
   press F1 or any mouse button on the root window
 and fvwm will
   offer to create a few different configurations
 for you?
  
  yes, it is mentioned in the man
  but it appears at line 365 in a very 
  modest 2 line sentence (context: .fvwm2rc).  
  it is repeated in a somewhat more extended 
  version at ~1100 (Built in KM Bindings).
  
  while I agree that structurally these are 
  apropriate locations, i believe not many
  newbies can spot and pick up the message
  (i personally missed them when first read/
  scanned through the manual. mind you it is 
  8000+ lines of heavy text).
  
  I think it would be helpful to 
  - to put a To the Impatient setion at the very 
  begining of the man with this info
  - mention this also in one of the INSTALL and/or 
  README files (e.g. README.sysrc).
 

Welcome to *nix

I think the man page should remain as it is.
The man page format is standard.

Man page _is_ a reference. Man page _is not_ a
tutorial. Will never be.

If you are impatient and newbie in the same time
the chances of screwing things up are big, so
my advice is to start with a configuration file
that _works_ and modify it to suit your needs,

I think somebody wrote a tutorial for fvwm.
Use it.

Good luck

  
 
  imre
 
Calin


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FVWM: Restricted region for fvwm?

2002-08-26 Thread Matthias Burghardt

Hi,

is it possible to restrict the region, where FVWM places new windows and to 
which windows are maximised (in order to save some space at the borders for the 
GNOME panels)?


Thanks in advance

Matthias

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FVWM: Hide PagerDisplay in FvwmPager

2002-08-26 Thread Niklas Matthies
Short version: I'd like FvwmPager to _not_ draw its own PagerDisplay
window in the pager view. Is there a way to achieve this?
I'm using fvwm 2.4.8. from the Debian distribution.

Long version: I use a large grid of desks and like to see them all at
once in the pager when navigating between desks, hence the pager view is
quite big, practically fuillscreen. Normally, I have the PagerDisplay
iconified, effectively hidden since I don't display icons, and deiconify
it (and make it topmost) on demand via a hotkey for navigation. I then
navigate using Alt+cursor-keys, the PagerDisplay being sticky hence
remaining on-screen. Unfortunately, in the pager view, the PagerDisplay
window then always obscures the current desk. This is a bit annoying,
somewhat as if the text cursor in a text editor would always obscure the
current character under the cursor. Since there isn't much use anyway
for the PagerDisplay window to be present in the pager view, I'd like to
get rid of it there.

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Re: FVWM: Restricted region for fvwm?

2002-08-26 Thread Mikhael Goikhman
On 26 Aug 2002 21:58:44 +0200, Matthias Burghardt wrote:
 
 is it possible to restrict the region, where FVWM places new windows and to 
 which windows are maximised (in order to save some space at the borders for 
 the GNOME panels)?

Yes, in 2.5.x see the EWMHBaseStrut description in the man page.
But there maybe temporary problems with it when MinOverlapPlacement used.

I don't have the latest GNOME and KDE, but I would think their panels and
maybe other apps should have options for window managers to reserve them
the desktop space using EWMH hints. In this case EWMHBaseStrut is not
needed, since FVWM by default respects these hints.

Regards,
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Re: FVWM: Hide PagerDisplay in FvwmPager

2002-08-26 Thread Mikhael Goikhman
On 26 Aug 2002 22:47:03 +0200, Niklas Matthies wrote:
 
 Short version: I'd like FvwmPager to _not_ draw its own PagerDisplay
 window in the pager view. Is there a way to achieve this?
 I'm using fvwm 2.4.8. from the Debian distribution.
 
 Long version: I use a large grid of desks and like to see them all at
 once in the pager when navigating between desks, hence the pager view is
 quite big, practically fuillscreen. Normally, I have the PagerDisplay
 iconified, effectively hidden since I don't display icons, and deiconify
 it (and make it topmost) on demand via a hotkey for navigation. I then
 navigate using Alt+cursor-keys, the PagerDisplay being sticky hence
 remaining on-screen. Unfortunately, in the pager view, the PagerDisplay
 window then always obscures the current desk. This is a bit annoying,
 somewhat as if the text cursor in a text editor would always obscure the
 current character under the cursor. Since there isn't much use anyway
 for the PagerDisplay window to be present in the pager view, I'd like to
 get rid of it there.

You can't do this in 2.4.8.

In 2.5.x, use:

  *FvwmPager: UseSkipList

Then all WindowListSkip windows are not shown in the pager, like:

  Style FvwmPager WindowListSkip

Regards,
Mikhael.
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Re: FVWM: .fvwm2rc syntax guide?

2002-08-26 Thread Len Philpot
On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 10:20:47PM +, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
 On 25 Aug 2002 16:18:42 -0500, Len Philpot wrote:
  2. When I configure a Popup StartMenu, is there a way to accurately
  control where it appears on screen, in regard to the Start button? If I
  understood MenuStyle a bit better, maybe the answer is there
  (PopupOffset, or whatever it's called)...?
 
 Yes, you may do this accurately in 2.5.1+, scan NEWS file.
 
 In 2.4.x, you may do this too using Rectangle or Mouse hint (there are
 examples in fvwm-themes), but not as accurately as in 2.5.x.

I'm using FvwmTaskBar, with no RootMenu configured, but rather all the
same entries on the StartMenu. It pops up just fine when I click the
task bar button, but the position is relative to the mouse pointer, not
to the task bar. That's what I'm trying to achieve. I'm currently
running 2.4.6, BTW (latest RPM for RedHat 7.x I could locate in a quick
search). Here's what I've tried to pin down the location:

AddToMenu StartMenu Root x y SelectInPlace

...where x and y are various offsets. I would expect x to be 0 and y to
basically be height_of_root_window - height_of_menu - height_of_taskbar.
In this intance, referencing the lower left corner of the menu would
have been more convenient and less prone to change, although menu's
typically _do_ drop down, so I see the value in the upperleft reference
point.  Trouble is, it doesn't seem to make any difference at all what I
put there - Nothing ever changes. My MenuStyle is :

MenuStyle * Foreground black, Background grey70, Greyed grey90,\
 HilightBack grey60, ActiveFore black, Hilight3DThickness -1, \
 font -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, Animation,\
 PopupDelay 55, PopdownDelay 5, TitleWarpOff, SeparatorsLong,\
 TrianglesRelief, PopupOffset 0 95

...with the exception that it's actually all on one line. It works as
expected, but is something there interfering?
 
 What exactly annoys you about menus and windows? Provide configurations.

It's just that I prefer the mouse pointer to stay where it is when I
click it. In general, I'm not a big fan of anything in the UI
responding or taking any kind of action without an explicit
instruction on the part of the user. I'd rather not even have the menu
selection move with the mouse without the button being down, given a
choice, and I don't care for highlighting icons that change as you
mouseover them (so popular in Windows, Gnome, KDE, etc.), but that's
just my personal GUI preferences. I like intefaces that are totally
static until acted upon by the user. Once again, just my preference.
Even under Windows, I don't turn on the option to jump to the active
control. With those sort of things active, I tend to spend more time
looking for the mouse pointer. The way I have it now, I have no warping
happening, at least none I've noticed, so I'm happy with that.

Let me clarify something - I may have inadvertently come across as
critical of fvwm and the way things are done. That was not intentional,
but rather just the product of frustration (indeed, I even stated such
in one post). I usually never write when in such a state, as I always
regret it later. I'll state again: I like what I'm learning of fvwm and
I'm appreciative of the help; it's just that the learning process is
somewhat painful at times (at least, it smarts here and there...).

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