Re: FVWM: Unhide a hidden taskbar
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 03:54:29AM -0800, Leo Simon wrote: I'm praying that next time I log in, the board will forgive and forget my earlier typos (related to the upper case requirement), stop counting past errors and wipe the slate clean. If not, let me know and I'll sort it out for you. Seems ok now, I just have to train myself to remember to upper-case the first letter of my password As an aside, is there any chanve your MUA (or editor, if like me you use vim and mutt) could wrap its lines to 66 characters or so? At the moment I'm having to wrap your responses correctly as they're coming through all on one line which is bloody irritating. Hmmm, I've trained vim on my pine editor to unwrap, because I inhabit, unfortunately an increasingly non-unix world, and 66 line wraps look terrible in gmail, etc. I'll try to remember to reset textwidth when communicating in my preferred world! Perhaps irrelevant, since now I seem to be no longer locked out of the forum!!! -- Thomas Adam
FVWM: Unhide a hidden taskbar
Tried to post this on the forum but it wouldn't let me log on. I accidently Iconified my task bar and don't see any way to get it back. Could you please advise if there is one? Thanks very much, Leo User ID: LeoSimon _ Professor Leo Simonleosi...@berkeley.edu Agricultural and Resource Economicshttp://are.berkeley.edu/~simon 207 Giannini Hall #3310(510) 917-2916 (cell) University of California at Berkeley (510) 642-8230 (office) Berkeley CA 94720-3310 (510) 643-8911 (fax)
Re: FVWM: Unhide a hidden taskbar
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 03:56:00AM -0800, Leo Simon wrote: Tried to post this on the forum but it wouldn't let me log on. Right -- and you forget/entered incorrectly which piece of information? Never get a chance to find out, I'm always told that I've tried too many times, although I tried only once and made a typo.Then I'm confronted with a CAPTCHA that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to me. Presumably a cultural reference. I accidently Iconified my task bar and don't see any way to get it back. Could you please advise if there is one? There is no such thing as my task bar -- either you're using FvwmButtons or FvwmTaskBar, in which case if you really mean iconified, then see: Next (SomeName) Iconify Off Amongst many other ways of doing the same thing. More specific answers will come with more specific information from you, if the above doesn't help you. Was indeed the FvwmTaskBar. Seemed to have solved the problem - Click in the root area - Select Modules - click on TaskBar It magically comes back!!! Thanks to all for help -- Thomas Adam -- Deep in my heart I wish I was wrong. But deep in my heart I know I am not. -- Morrissey (Girl Least Likely To -- off of Viva Hate.)
Re: FVWM: Dell Docking station destroys my desktop layout
Thanks very much for your quick response! I'm almost sure it's not xrandr related.I set all of the xterm parameters explicitly, e.g., I Exec xterm -j -title ALEX -geometry $STD_COLS\x$STD_ROWS-0-$BOT_OFFSET -fg brown -bg ivory -fn -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--$MED_FONT-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 where the STD_COLS etc are defined as environment variables. When I dock the machine, the geometry of all my screens are exactly as I've set them up to be, at least according to :FvwmIdent, that is, :FvwmIdent reports exactly the same information, whether I'm docked or not, but somehow the actual geometry is quite different from the way it should be. --- Professor Leo Simonsi...@are.berkeley.edu Agricultural and Resource Economicshttp://are.berkeley.edu/~simon 207 Giannini Hall #3310(510) 917-2916 (cell) University of California at Berkeley (510) 642-8230 (office) Berkeley CA 94720-3310 (510) 643-8911 (fax) On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Thomas Adam wrote: 2009/9/4 si...@are.berkeley.edu: I'm running fvwm using ubuntu hardy on a Dell D630 latitude. Whenever I attach my latitude to a Dell docking station, my desktop layout is changed. The only aspect of this layout I care about is the location of a bunch of xterm screens. When I click the identity tab, all looks exactly the same as when I'm not docked, but the locations of the xterm screens are all moved. Any advice on how to fix this would be most appreciated! Is this xrandr related? Just restart FVWM. -- Thomas Adam
Re: FVWM: Dell Docking station destroys my desktop layout
Will explain, but I don't know what top posting is. --- Professor Leo Simonsi...@are.berkeley.edu Agricultural and Resource Economicshttp://are.berkeley.edu/~simon 207 Giannini Hall #3310(510) 917-2916 (cell) University of California at Berkeley (510) 642-8230 (office) Berkeley CA 94720-3310 (510) 643-8911 (fax) On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Thomas Adam wrote: 2009/9/4 Leo Simon si...@are.berkeley.edu: the actual geometry is quite different from the way it should be. Don't top post. You're going to have to explain a lot more detail what you do/happens when you dock your laptop -- are you then using an external monitor to your laptop? Either way, I am not clear at all what actions you're doing to think things have changed when you paradoxically say they're also the same. -- Thomas Adam
Re: FVWM: Dell Docking station destroys my desktop layout
2009/9/4 Leo Simon si...@are.berkeley.edu: the actual geometry is quite different from the way it should be. Don't top post. You're going to have to explain a lot more detail what you do/happens when you dock your laptop -- are you then using an external monitor to your laptop? Either way, I am not clear at all what actions you're doing to think things have changed when you paradoxically say they're also the same. -- Thomas Adam I presume this is bottom posting. Ok, I was being stupid.The problem was: the docking station has an external monitor cable attached, but I wasn't actually using the external monitor, which offers several possible input modes and a switch to toggle thru them. I'd assumed that because the external monitor was actively connected to another computer, the laptop would ignore the external monitor cable. I guess that was silly. Thanks for your help! Leo
