On 06/26/2016 12:00 AM, Brian wrote:
Thomas, I'm sorry to say that it's been a year since I tried Nightshade, I'm not even sure which version at the time. I do remember trying to build the necessary dependencies from SlackBuilds.org. There was a optional package which wasn't available in the SBo but I installed without that option. What I remember was config didn't know how to handle my two monitors of different sizes. I believe at the time I thought it might be a Xinemera issue, but crystal was perfectly happy to handle both monitors from the default config.
The 0.6.x version hasn't multi monitor support. Also the upcoming 0.8. I'm working on it but it isn't finished yet. Probably available in 1.0 ...
I see perl-gtk2 1.2495 in the SBo, so it shouldn't be hard to install that dep. Good luck with your continued development. Is nightshade still installing in it's own directory folders? I know crystal is still using its own, as the old FVWM-Themes will also.
Yes :-)
Actually I really like themes, but trying to customize the menus with XDG integration simply failed. The XDG menu integration is one thing I liked about crystal.
The XDG menu integration is available in Fvwm since 2.6.6. You can use it if you replace fvwm-menu-desktop in 2.6.5 with that one from 2.6.6. You need also the new man page and fvwm-menu-desktop-config.fpl which should placed in /usr/share/fvwm/. Read the new man page how to integrate it into the root menu.
I've since converted to WindowMaker as my preferred window manager. It is small on resources, fast, EWMH compliant, and handles my two monitors with multiple desktops, with XDG menu integration through a trick I found on the WM forum. The only thing I miss is a right-click allowing me to move applications to other virtual desktops with a click, instead I have to drag them to the right or left edge. I'm following the FVWM forums because I still see awesome potential that WMaker might fail in the future.
Yeah, Fvwm rocks! ^^ Cheers, Thomas -- -- "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." -- Albert Einstein
