On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 10:46:55AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > Unfortunately, the most important windows "Station", "Timing", ect are the > ones that I can't access the buttons on. Is FVWM something that I can > install in Debian Wheezy or is it something that is built into particular > X-Windows interfaces?
FVWM is a window manager that can certainly be installed in Wheezy, but getting it to run and play nice with the other parts of your desktop environment may be a challenge (I run fvwm on my BSD box, and don't run any part of GNOME there, but on my Ubuntu laptop have not bothered to change from the default window manager (metacity)). https://wiki.debian.org/WindowManager See especially the line at the end that says "Window Managers must not be confused with Desktop Environments" for additional confusion. See http://www.fvwm.org/documentation/faq/ (question 2.8) for some hints about getting fvwm to work as GNOME's window manager (assuming you're using GNOME). If you're using a different desktop environment, you might have to resort to Google. Unless you luck out and find someone here who has done it on Wheezy. Full-blown desktop environments may be overkill for small-screen systems like you're using (which is why Curt used it on his). But FVWM is pretty old-school (as are Curt and I), so it might not be the perfect fit for you. The main thing that is useful about it for this applicaiton is that you can define a "virtual desktop" that is larger than your physical screen, and when you move the mouse off the edge of the screen it moves to a different part of the virtual desktop. That can help when a window pops up that is larger than the physical screen --- it'll just occupy a different part of the virtual desktop. > > From: "Curt, WE7U" <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Cc: Jason Rausch <[email protected]>; Xastir - APRS client software > discussion <[email protected]>; "Curt, WE7U" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2014 1:00 PM > Subject: Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts > On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, [1][email protected] wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 07:19:51AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[2][email protected]> flavor, containing: > >> Tom, > >> Thanks for explaining that. I can see the mouse behavior change and > the > >> change to the bottom status bar, but any menu that was longer than > the > >> screen is still off the bottom where I can't access the buttons. > Should > >> this change have re-sized the windows? > > > > Can't say -- I think you might have to change font sizes or something. > I've > > already exhausted what I know about this option. Others who have > actually used > > it will have to answer this. > > No, it won't resize. Your only option might be to play with fonts. I > remember (from years back) that there were still a few dialogs that were > too large for the screen, but I was using FVWM as my window manager and > was able to move to another virtual screen to work the rest of the dialog. > > -- > Curt, WE7U. > [3]http://wetnet.net/~we7u > APRS Client Capabilities: > [4]http://wetnet.net/~we7u/aprs_capabilities.html > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:[email protected] > 2. mailto:[email protected] > 3. http://wetnet.net/~we7u > 4. http://wetnet.net/~we7u/aprs_capabilities.html -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
