On Friday, Maciej Kalisiak mumbled: > Note though that fvwm-themes is not a panacea for new FVWM users... > not yet.
Nor is it a panacea for experienced FVWM users! I've configured a lot of FVWM's behavior in the past, but I had yet to tackle the problem of making it look pretty beyond selecting different colors for the window borders. So I was intrigued by fvwm-theme's purported ability to make FVWM look like any number of other window managers. However, I don't need to be able to swap themes at the click of a button! While that's nice eye candy for newbies, and I did spend some time playing with the different looks, I just want a single lightweight configuration that I understand and can tweak easily. For example: I couldn't tell fvwm-themes that I only wanted two desktops! So what I did was to rip out the "nanogui" theme and hardcode it into my fvwm2rc, along with my existing FVWM customizations. However the process of ripping out just that one look-and-feel was not at all simple; I had to read through all of the fvwm-themes configurations and peel out portions of the nanogui configuration from a multitude of different files. There's a lot of knowledge embodied within the fwvm-themes package, but it's not very easy to use it unless you give up your existing customization and buy into the entire dynamically-generated-fvwm-configuration framework. What I did when I extracted the nanogui theme was to keep the nanogui-specific configuration in separate files. I'm using the Debian system.fvwm2rc, which reads in user-supplied hooks at key points. So my hooks import the nanogui theme along with my other customization. This solution is much less intimidating and less heavyweight than using fvwm-themes, especially for people who already have a configuration they're comfortable with and just want to make it look pretty. I would love to see other themes broken out into similar config-files that can be added to an existing FVWM configuration simply by adding a Read command. --Tessa -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
