--- Xue Ruini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a newbie to FVWM, so please forgive me if I am asking navie topics.
That's OK. We're here to help. > I am using the .fvwm2rc from Tavis, and modified it to fit my box. But > some questions come out: > > 1. The transparent effect working fine with all applications excepte for > gvim. Whenever I resize or minmize and then maxmize the gvim, it > becomes > blank, and I have to force "killall -9 givm" to close it. I *think* this was a known issue with the vim developers. I suggest asking on their mailing-list to see. Although I know of people using gvim just fine with transparency. Odd. If you launch gvim from an xterm, is anything printed to it, such as errors? > 2. In my Debian box with the default xfce, OpenOffice works fine. > However, > after my moving to FVWM, the characters in the menu are TOO SMALL. > The > other applications seem fine. This could be the default font size for all your gtk apps. > 3. Tavis put some FvwmButtons on the right edge, but I found it > sometimes > took up too much space. I want to make it dynamic as in a drawer, > which > can be opened and closed on demand. (search TODO in this mail) This is available in FvwmButtons by using the "Panel" option to FvwmButtons. There's a really good explanation of this in the man page for FvwmButtons, under the section "CREATING PANELS". -- Thomas Adam ===== "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net "<shrug> We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :)" -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor) ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- 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]
