Hello: I have been on this list for a while, and I finally want to know something.
I have been using FVWM2 on Cygwin, and I find that FVWMButtons does not behave the way it did under Linux (mind you, I have not used it under Linux in a while). However, I remember that in Linux, I could get FvwmButtons to swallow rxvt, which I got to run "tail" on some system logs, which often proved useful. In Cygwin, I don't see that you are able to do this anymore. But worse, is the fact that the button bar goes off nearly forever beyond the screen boundaries. Here is the code I used. There are some modifications made, so some lines are commented out. All buttons fit on to a single row, which should fit across the width of the screen: #------------------ FvwmButtons (from 2.0.42) *FvwmButtonsFore navajowhite *FvwmButtonsBack rgb:40/40/59 *FvwmButtonsFont -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-* *FvwmButtonsBoxSize: smart *FvwmButtonsGeometry -0-23 # Layout: specify rows or columns, not both # uncomment for the big bar *FvwmButtonsRows 1 #*FvwmButtonsColumns 8 ######################################################### # Define the buttons to use..... ######################################################## # Container # *FvwmButtons(2x2,Frame 0,Container(Rows 2 Columns 2 Frame 0)) *FvwmButtons(4x1,Swallow(UseOld,NoHints,Respawn),"Top",'Exec xterm -fn fixed -bg navajowhite -fg black -e top &') # *FvwmButtons (End) ######################################################### # Row 1 (if there is more than 1 row) # *FvwmButtons(2x7,Frame 2,Container(Rows 2,Columns 7,Frame 2)) *FvwmButtons (Title soffice, Icon StarOffice6.xpm, \ Action 'Exec "soffice" /Cygdrive/h/Progra~1/StarOffice6/program/soffice.exe & ') *FvwmButtons (Title Maple, Icon Maple9_5.xpm, \ Action 'Exec "Maple" /cygdrive/h/Progra~1/Maple_9.5/bin.win/maplew9.5.exe &') *FvwmButtons (Title shell, Icon xterm.linux_3d.xpm, \ Action 'Exec xterm -fn 9x15 -fg white -bg darkgreen -e bash -l &') *FvwmButtons (4x1, Swallow(UseOld) "Fvwm Pager" 'FvwmPager 0 3') ######################################################### # Row 2 *FvwmButtons (Title Logout, Icon /usr/lib/X11/icons/fvwm2/3dpixmaps/exit.xpm,\ Action Quit) *FvwmButtons (Title kill, Icon bomb_3d.xpm, Action Destroy) *FvwmButtons (Title Firefox, Icon Firefox.xpm, \ Action 'Exec "Firefox" /cygdrive/j/Progra~1/Firefox/firefox.exe &') *FvwmButtons (4x1, Swallow(UseOld) "xload" 'Exec \ xload -fn r24 -fg navajowhite -bg rgb:40/40/59 -u 5 &') # *FvwmButtons (End) #########################################################
