Hello,
i am an icewm user, but took a look to fvwm now. It is very impressing
what can be configured in fvwm. It seems that nearly everything is
possible. But this also is my problem. I do not dare to try fvwm because
it seems to be very much work to make it behave and look, like i want.
Rob Park wrote:
You might have liked my old fvwm config. There were no permanent UI
elements... (no taskbar, nothing like that. you had the whole screen to
maximize a window).
Left clicking on the desktop got you a transient pager, middle clicking
got you a list of running programs, and right
RvB wrote:
quite similar in feel, but different in look (you don't see the feel in
screenshots ;)) ...
What about a feelshot? :)
http://rvb.dyndns.org/screens/scrn-07-19-2002.png
this is the first screenshot of my fvwm comeback of july ... i've used
fvwm 3 years before and finally came back
Dominik Vogt wrote:
I have my root menu bound to Alt-Space and am quite happy with it.
I tried binding it to a Shift-Button2 click on the window
decorations too, but I never got used to it. Requires too much
thinking where the pointer is.
I think i would bind it to left-windows-key + click
Hello,
FvwmTaskBar's man-page gives an example configuration that contains the
lines:
Style FvwmTaskBar NoTitle,BorderWidth 4, HandleWidth 4,Sticky,
StaysOnTop,WindowSkipList,CirculateSkip
I had problems with this:
First the style-config should be in one line (or written as continued
Hello,
while experimenting with fvwm i have found a funny thing:
I do have an empty .fvwm2rc file (0 bytes of size) for my fvwm 2.5.5.
Now i do the following things:
Choose Issue FVWM Commands from the default menu.
Enter the following 2 lines:
Module FvwmPager
Style FvwmPager sticky
Stian Sletner wrote:
It's not that (I have that already). I don't get to the last window
with one alt-tab, but to some other window. Pressing and releasing
alt-tab several times should just toggle between two windows, but
instead cycles through the list of them.
Because i am new to fvwm i
Marcus Lundblad wrote:
Hello,
while experimenting with fvwm i have found a funny thing:
I do have an empty .fvwm2rc file (0 bytes of size) for my fvwm 2.5.5.
Now i do the following things:
Choose Issue FVWM Commands from the default menu.
Enter the following 2 lines:
Module FvwmPager
Dan Espen wrote:
Thank you, for your answer.
On my system, Fvwm lags behind the mouse (as I think it would be
expected to) and I think X is throwing away some of the X traffic
which might be what you are seeing.
Hmm, as i understand you, this would result in a slightly
stottering/uneven
Hello,
i am not sure if this (everybody should know the corresponding Amiga
commodity ;) ) is a window manager or X topic: Is it possible to remove
the mouse pointer from screen when pressing a key? The mouse pointer
should be reanimated at the last position again when moving the mouse.
Dan Espen wrote:
No need, using these instructions, I see it now.
Great. So is there a chance for a soon fix? Or do i have to submit this
issue into an bug tracker of fvwm before?
Ciao,
Gert
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Olivier Chapuis wrote:
No this not normal. Can you your FvwmTaskBar config?
The bug occurs with a 0 byte (so empty) config, too:
* Open the Issue FVWM commands Console
* Type Module FvwmTaskBar
* Try to resize the taskbar
= killed
Ciao,
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Hello,
after checking the man page, the FAQ and trying to search the web (it's
difficult to search for this topic fvwm window key modifier that
results in many fvwmrc files) i ask you:
Is it possible to use the following keys as modifiers?
* left window
* (right) Alt Gr
* right window
*
Johan Svedberg wrote:
The program you are looking for is called unclutter.
Ok, unclutter looks ok, but the -keystroke parameter does not work
here, as mentioned in unclutter's man page. And i do not understand what
the man page tells me about an XTest-Extension.
So i ask myself if it was
Dan Espen wrote:
I've committed a fix for this in the 2.5.x branch.
If have tested the todays CVS version which includes:
2003-02-16 Dan Espen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* FvwmPager/x_pager.c (DispatchEvent): Fix compilation problems...
Well, the pager's behaviour is different than before, but
Hello,
i have the following command in my fvwm2.5 config:
Mouse 3 W 4 resize
This works fine. When pressing the left window key and the right mouse
button on a window, i can resize the window.
The thing that i do not like is, that i still have to move the mouse
pointer to the edge or
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i'd like to change the color of title bar, but when i do it, i can see
the frame color behind the title bar color.
I am not sure, if i understand you right: You want the focused window to
have a green title, but it is #ce8200?
AddToDecor CDEDecor
The
Ploum wrote:
Anyone have a detailled how-to for installing fvwm 2.5.5 under debian sarge
?
Well, this is the way how i installed it under woody:
* keep the original fvwm package installed, so you still can use the
autogenerated debian-menus, if you like to have it included in one of
your
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
that i
want is the title to be of green color but i can see 2 colors, green and
other, and i want that it to be green COMPLETELY...
Ok, you want the title to be green and also the top window border?
Gert
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S. Anderson wrote:
What do you think about a resize that works like this:
When you click alt mouse2 and then move the mouse left, the window
grows to the left, and then if you move the mouse right without
releasing the mouse button the window grows smaller. And if your initial
mouse movement
Ploum wrote:
* Pay attention to really start the correct new /usr/local/bin/fvwm.
How do you do this ? thx for the help, checkinstall work great :)
It depends on how you start your X-Server:
by startx: put the line exec /usr/local/bin/fvwm into .xinitrc
by a display manager: put the
Dan Espen wrote:
VisibilityNotify and Expose.)
Just for my understanding: What are the messages VisibilityNotify and
Expose good for? Is it a mozilla bug that it reacts on only
VisibilityNotify?
Perhaps this should be configurable as a Style somehow? Then fvwm was
ICCCM compliant but the
Dominik Vogt wrote:
Will you try? :)
Actually I was trying to encourage you to write it :) I don't I
will have time for that one anytime soon. Oh, and we are in
feature freeze too.
Well, i took a look at/on/to (please teach me, what is correct?) the
code. Well the function is way long.
Thanks for your explanation, Dominik.
phew... complicated... What does obscure mean in window manager
context? Checking a dictionary did not return sensefull results. So,
what is the difference between not (fully) visible and (partially)
obscured?
All the cases that you did describe are ok
Hello,
while experimenting with virtual desktop commands I have configured the
usual CTRL-ALT-CursorKey to move the screen to another page (GotoPage)
and also CTRL-RighWin-ALT-CursorKey to move the currently focused window
to a page and also go there. Therefore I use this function:
-transient
Note that this option does only work if the window style of the pager
window is style too.
What does this sentence mean?
When iconified, the pager will work as a fully functional current page
only pager.
Shouldn't this be current desktop only pager.?
Gert
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Glyn Millington wrote:
I am looking for a way to announce Workspaces like in wmaker. Is there a X
Application which I could use together with FvwmBaker?
Is this the Coffee-Making module ? ;-)
This Module is planned for fvwm 3.0. You can give it a comma separated
list auf wishes, e.g.:
Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
The advice is to use FvwmButtons for this. Have menu or launch buttons,
swallow FvwmIconMan and any applet like your app inside FvwmButtons.
Do I understand you right?
I should build my own taskbar by using FvwmButtons that swallows all
things I want (in my case a
Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
I found something, which does exactly what I want and is real good: osd_cat from
XOSD!
This really looks good. But how do you call it from fvwm? The problem is
that in fvwm the pages and desktops AFAIK do not have a name, they are
just labeled in the FvwmPager
Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
Key N A SC Next (XTerm) MyFocusAndRaise # press Shift-Ctrl-N
Can this be done more generally so that it does work with not only
xterms but with every type of window? Something like:
... Next (has same class as current) MyFocusAndRaise
Gert
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Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
there should be 2 very configurable modules, one for the dynamical list of
windows (let's call it FvwmIconMan for now) and one for the button layout
Why not swalling FvwmTaskBar into FvwmButtons? Where is the advantage of
FvwmIconMan?
Balloons are not available in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doesn't crash here. Can you post a minimal config file and a
I could do that but it would make no sense, because the minimal config
file is an empty config file (so only the fvwm default config is used)
Do you still want me to post it? :)
stack trace, please?
Dan Espen wrote:
To use gdb with a core file, you need the full path the the executable and
Ok, I did not have the core file because ulimit -c seems to be set to
0 by debian woody as default.
Here is the X Error:
So you do not need my gdb output anymore, right?
My FvwmTaskBar config:
Hello,
as configuring fvwm I ask myself which way the desktops and pages are
set up best:
1) One desktop with multiple pages
2) Multiple desktops with only one page each
3) Multiple desktops with multiple pages each
How are *you* using these and why?
Where are the advantages or
Hello,
on www.fvwm.org you have the page Fvwm - Links and there the section
Other Window Managers. There are only 2 managers listed yet. I am sure
that xfce is based on fvwm, too. The configuration commands do look
nearly the same as in fvwm.
Are there any other window managers based on
Klaus Zeitler wrote:
kzeitler 10861 794 0 14:53:40 pts/30:00 sh -c fvwm-menu-directory -d /
--exec-file ^emacs --check-subdir --links --wm
It is not a problem of cyclic links somehow?
Gert
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Hello,
I think the fvwm man page is to complex for reading and searching
through only one continous document. IMHO it would be much better to
split it into several sub pages. E.g. each of the paragraphs like
Commands for menus, Commands affecting window movement and
placement, etc. should be
Uwe Pross wrote:
On 10 Jun 2003 at 09:01:31 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
If enough fvwm-workers agree, I'll volunteer to split
up the man page. Its too big for me too.
I think it is better to make a simple script which spilts the
output from man2html. So the original man remains untached.
I
Catherine Luedecker wrote:
I would agree that the man page is quite a bit to get thru. I went to
my local library to print out the pages and it was quite a huge task.
Well, if you wanted to print an html-Version of the document it would
not be less...
btw.: Perhaps the best solution would
Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
For me the best solution is to use dhtml (with active + or -), not
multiple pages, i.e. to show only sections initially, then a user may
open and close any section as he likes. Or maybe the default is to open
all sections for small man pages.
Not very hard to add such
Hi,
me, myself and I wrote:
AddToFunc MyResize
# Find the nearest edge or corner of the current window
# warp the mouse to this edge or corner
# resize
# when finished, warp back the mouse cursor to the inital position
(maybe moved by the delta-value that you have moved the mouse while
Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
It is not very complicated, you should just divide a window to 9 parts
(actually 8) somehow and warp the pointer to the nearer border. But there
may be some unexpected issues.
If implementation of this function is done internally it should work
without warping the
Hello,
I use the tool checkinstall to install fvwm (the current CVS version)
on my debian/testing Linux. checkinstall warns me that some of the files
created by the installation are inside the build directory. Here is the
list of the files:
/usr/local/src/fvwm_cvs/fvwm/bin/fvwm-root
Hello,
when I start fvwm (the current CVS version) and open FvwmTaskbar, 3
rxvts and mozilla with 1 browser and 1 mail window the order of the
windows in the FvwmTaskbar is:
rxvt, rxvt, rxvt, mozbrowser, mozmailer
when I leave this desktoppage and return back (by EdgeSwitching by
mouse)
Frank Ehmsen wrote:
*FvwmButtonsTaskbr: Geometry 1152x29+0-0
Be carefull with the \, and set the Geometry and Columns-Options
to your needs.
Is there a way to make this solution adjust automatically? (e.g. 100% in
width)?
I did play around with FVWMButtons once and I think it is much to
Hello,
while trying to write a resize-function that behaves like the
ALT+Mouse3-Resizing(*) in other WMs, I have a problem: How can the
Mouse-Pointer be stored and later be recalled? I am trying it like...
(see below). Result: The mouse pointer is not moved after resizing. Does
anybody has
Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
I would say any complex function should normally have only one M,
like in this sample:
OK. Just one question to be sure to understand how execution of this
complex functions works:
DestroyFunc MyResizeDispatcher
AddToFunc MyResizeDispatcher
+ C MyResize0
Olivier Chapuis wrote:
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 11:27:34PM +0200, Gert Brinkmann wrote:
Sorry that I did not answer for such a long time. Because of some
missing features in fvwm and because of not enough time to add them
manually, I did continue to use icewm. At the moment I am back
Mario Domgörgen wrote:
Mising a comfortable way to read the man page I've started a info page
Yes, the man pages of fvwm are hard to handle. It is a very good idea to
split it up.
(BTW: The other purpose of that eMail was naturally to find other
info-fvwm lovers... :) )
Well, I do not
Dominik Vogt wrote:
I would like to combine it with KDE or Gnome (actually I am a bit more
at ease with KDE), but
- I do not know how
I did try fvwm together with gnome2:
Start gnome-session as usual. Then kill the running window-manager
(killall metacity should work, if it is the
Hello,
I have tried to configure fvwm so that it behaves the same as other
window-manager on resizing and moving: When pressing ALT, clicking into
a window with the left mousebutton should move the window, clicking the
right mousebutton should grep the nearest edge (or border, what I had to
A small side note. I would divide the window into 9 squares and not 4,
Yes, you are right. I have planned to do this, but did not enhance the
script yet, because the whole behaviour was very useless for me... until
now.
Thank you very much for your hints. They are working great. Now I can
Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
I hope you understand that H means holding the mouse as opposed to C,
M, D and I, it is activated after ClickTime milliseconds.
I always thought I means immediately after mouse press (the man page
says is executed as soon as the function is invoked. This seems not to
Dominik Vogt wrote:
I have just committed a patch that provides this. With latest CVS
or tomorrow's snapshot, try
AddToFunc ResizeSE I Resize Direction SE
Mouse 3 TSIFW M ResizeSE
Hey, cool. This is what I am waiting for. :)
Does Direction SE mean that the window is resized in the
Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
I don't think X has a way to access the image of unvisible windows.
In short, the unvisible virtual pages simply do not exist, they should
yet to be formed by X, fvwm and applications.
Perhaps it works to use Xnest to start one virtual X-Server for each
page. I do not
Wesley Hart wrote:
Under 2.5.10, I must press-and-release button 3, drag to the new window
http://www.hpc.uh.edu/fvwm/archive/0307/msg00396.html
Ciao,
Gert
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Lars Segerlund wrote:
I have looked a bit, but I cant find out if fvwm supports 'drag drop' to the
'desktop'/'root window'.
AFAIK fvwm does not support it. Instead you should/could use other tools
for this, e.g. rox-filer.
Gert
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Scott Smedley wrote:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/scott.fvwm/
is indeed a bit better ...
It is really looking better, also for orientation/navigation.
Any suggestions for making it even better?
If chapters would be numbered the documentation could be referenced
better e.g. on the mailing
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I also have another question: I would like to implement another goodie
for FvwmTaskBar, namely a CPU usage meter. Is anyone interested in such
a thing? Should I post the patches once they are ready?
IMHO it would be great if you could implement the
Dominik Vogt wrote:
FvwmButtons with a swallowed FvwmIconMan already does a very good
job of emulating a task bar. It would be much easier to just
provide a taskbar-like config for FvwmButtons.
Ok.
Does anybody have a good and general solution for this that could be
provided e.g on
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