"Paul Smith"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > %% Dominik Vogt <fvwm-workers@fvwm.org> writes: > > >> > You might consider filing a bug report with the xmms folks. > >> > >> Not a bad idea... > > dv> This is *definitely* an xmms bug. It is perfectly legal for any > dv> application to grab the X server at any time, although it should > dv> be released as fast as possible. Running tasks that work in real > dv> time in the same process/thread as X11 calls is simply stupid. If > dv> we'd fix that in fvwm there are thousands of other programs that > dv> can potentially cause similar problems. > > Isn't this what happens when you post a menu, for example? The server > is grabbed? That's why you can whiz the mouse around the screen and the > menu stays posted and other windows don't get focus (even if you have > focus follows mouse) and the mouse cursor doesn't change shape, etc. > > And I don't men just FVWM menus, I mean menus in just about any app. > > Or, is that something different?
Thats something different, those menus grab the pointer, not the server. -- Dan Espen 444 Hoes Lane Room RRC 1C-214 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Piscataway, NJ 08854 Phone: (732) 699-5570 -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] FrFrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jan 11 08:20:50 2002 Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 11 Jan 2002 08:20:50 -0600 (CST) Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA27234 for <fvwm-workers@hpc.uh.edu>; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 08:20:38 -0600 (CST) Received: from pet.softjoys.ru (pet-relcom.softjoys.ru [212.113.101.73]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA27199 for <fvwm-workers@fvwm.org>; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 08:20:38 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (pale.softjoys.ru [212.113.101.137]) by pet.softjoys.ru (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g0BEKs237074 for <fvwm-workers@fvwm.org>; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 17:20:56 +0300 (MSK) Received: from sacha by localhost with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16P2XN-0001Re-00 for <fvwm-workers@fvwm.org>; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 17:20:05 +0300 To: fvwm-workers@fvwm.org Subject: Re: FvwmButtons do not respect Pixmap sometimes References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Alexander Kotelnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: pale X-Face: (uU)eOi[yT~l(bwno'Pl_Z-MbLa:<"SX"r]IQb3zJ8G[n(PGcwS^;\?oSN~iz{IrR3`=_A- [EMAIL PROTECTED])&v;o8~<O#{3_xT_'Qg.humw\p1[|A7C68`QTx!0Q2-EFZoE7gmgWE` 1|zB%XGV]|5v=#|k Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 17:20:03 +0300 In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Dominik Vogt's message of "Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:34:23 +0100") Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lines: 48 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 >>>>> On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:34:23 +0100 >>>>> "Dominik" == Dominik Vogt <fvwm-workers@fvwm.org> wrote: Dominik> Dominik> On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:41:37PM +0300, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: >> >>>>> On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:57:41 +0100 >> >>>>> "Dominik" == Dominik Vogt <fvwm-workers@fvwm.org> wrote: Dominik> Dominik> On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:03:40AM +0300, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: >> >> If button is something like >> >> *FvwmButtons(Title "Title", Action 'Exec something&') >> >> and we have >> >> *FvwmButtonsPixmap pixmap.xpm >> >> Button title will not be coverd with pixmap.xpm >> >> >> >> I think this is not desired bahaviour. Dominik> Dominik> I agree that it's not the desired effect in all cases, but it is Dominik> definitely the way the code was designed (i.e. on purpose, not by Dominik> accident). I think it's easy to add an option that controls this. Dominik> >> In other words, this will not be fixed? Dominik> Dominik> If you mean to implement it in the way you describe and scrap the Dominik> old code, then - yes - it won't be fixed. That does not mean that Dominik> I won't implement another option for pixmaps on the button that Dominik> allows to choose one of both alternatives. Then I thin a comment should be paleced in FvwmButtons man page near *FvwmButtons: Pixmap pixmapfile Specifies a background pixmap to use. Specify "none" for a transparent background. Dominik> >> Can you tell me what is this purpose? Dominik> Dominik> I think the idea was to have a labeled button with a pixmap above Dominik> it that indicates the action that the button triggers. You are Hmm.. This is done with "Icon", not with all buttons wide "Pixmap", or I understand something incorrectly? Dominik> probably thinking of the pixmap as a background for the text. Dominik> Both approaches are certainly valid, but only the first one is Dominik> implemented at this time. -- Alexander Kotelnikov Saint-Petersburg, Russia -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
