Ranjan Maitra writes:
> On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:14:45 -0500 Dan Espen wrote:
>
>> Ranjan Maitra writes:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I was wondering if it is yet possible to get rounded corners on
>> > windows using fvwm. I know that there is an unofficial patch around for
>> > this, but I was looking to hopefully avoid going out of the official
>> > version.
>> >
>> > If it is not possible to get rounded corners on windows using fvwm, are
>> > there any plans for adding this support? If so, soon? Longer? Why not
>> > just adapt the patch?
>>
>> Generally Fvwm only adds frivolous things (like FvwmAnimate),
>> when they don't add bloat to the core of fvwm.
>>
>> I found a file named
>>
>> 09-FluxRoundedCorners.patch
>>
>> It doesn't qualify.
>
> OK, I am sorry for this naivete, but I don't know what parts in the
> patch cause the bloat: can they be worked around? (Of course, by
> that, I mean easily, since after all, anything can possibly be worked
> around.)
If that's the complete patch, it's lacking documentation and only works
with 2 radiuses, would attempt to curve a 1 pixel border. In short, it
looks like a hack.
>> > On a somewhat related question: is it possible to have the window
>> > title (the bar at the top of the window, right) not go entirely from
>> > left to right, but only part on the left. So that it looks like kind of
>> > a tab to the window. Would someone know how to do that ?
>>
>> Nope.
>
> So, this is not possible?
Not that I know of. FvwmTabs does something different.
I don't know why I'd want a truncated title leaving an unusable gap.
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Dan Espen
