Re: FVWM: Is there a way to ignore other windows when placing one?

2016-06-24 Thread lee
Lucio Chiappetti writes: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2016, lee wrote: > >> Interesting :) It seems very confusing, though. How do you remember >> what is where? I have a plain setup with just 6x6 pages and many times >> have to flip between them to find the particular page I

Re: FVWM: Is there a way to ignore other windows when placing one?

2016-06-24 Thread lee
Thomas Adam writes: > On 22 Jun 2016 1:24 a.m., "lee" wrote: >> >> Thomas Adam writes: >> >> > On 10 October 2015 at 11:53, lee wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> the subject pretty much says it: >> >> >>

Re: FVWM: Recommend Config for Fluxbox user

2016-06-24 Thread lee
"Thomas Funk" writes: > [...] > > Another possibility is to install Fvwm-Crystal or Fvwm-Nightshade to > get a full featured configuration of Fvwm. Fvwm-crystal is very overwhelming for someone starting out with fvwm, and the same is probably true for nightshade. If the OP wants to have somet

Re: How to remember what is where [Re: FVWM: Is there a way to ...]

2016-06-24 Thread lee
Michael Großer writes: > Lucio Chiappetti wrote: >> On Mon, 20 Jun 2016, lee wrote: >> >>> Interesting :) It seems very confusing, though. How do you remember >>> what is where? I have a plain setup with just 6x6 pages and many times >>> have to fli

Re: FVWM: Is there a way to ignore other windows when placing one?

2016-06-21 Thread lee
Thomas Adam writes: > On 10 October 2015 at 11:53, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> the subject pretty much says it: >> >> Can I somehow make it so that fvwm ignores particular windows when >> figuring out where to place a new one? > > Adding a style to ig

Re: FVWM: Is there a way to ignore other windows when placing one?

2016-06-20 Thread lee
Michael Großer writes: > lee wrote: >> Michael Großer writes: >> >>> Michael Großer wrote: >>>> Dan Espen wrote: >>>>> lee writes: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> the subje

Re: FVWM: Is there a way to ignore other windows when placing one?

2016-06-20 Thread lee
Dan Espen writes: > elliot s writes: > >> If fvwm can (be made to) optionally ignore lower layers during >> auto-placement, that would work. > > Long ago, Fvwm got so many options that I'm unable to keep track. > > MinOverlapPlacementPenalties has a series of arguments including "below" > that m

Re: FVWM: Is there a way to ignore other windows when placing one?

2016-06-20 Thread lee
Lucio Chiappetti writes: > On Sat, 17 Oct 2015, lee wrote: > >> I haven't figured out how to use multiple desks, though. I tried >> that once and apparently got multiple desks just by naming some, but >> no way to switch between them. > > As other said, p

Re: FVWM: Is there a way to ignore other windows when placing one?

2016-06-20 Thread lee
Dan Espen writes: > lee writes: > >> Michael Großer writes: >> >>> Michael Großer wrote: >>>> Dan Espen wrote: >>>>> lee writes: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> the su

Re: FVWM: suspending a process on Iconify

2014-06-11 Thread lee
"Dominik Vogt" writes: > Isn't > > $ killall -STOP seamonkey-bin > > and > > $ killall -CONT seamonkey-bin > > an option? If you're not working as root this should be fine. Hm, yes, that looks like a good approach. I could use 'killall -u ...'. -- Knowledge is volatile and fluid. Softw

Re: FVWM: suspending a process on Iconify

2014-06-02 Thread lee
Bastian writes: > On 02Jun14 01:44 +0200, lee wrote: >> des...@verizon.net (Dan.Espen) writes: >> >> > lee writes: >> > >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I would like to make a function that suspends the corresponding process >&g

Re: FVWM: suspending a process on Iconify

2014-06-01 Thread lee
des...@verizon.net (Dan.Espen) writes: > lee writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I would like to make a function that suspends the corresponding process >> when I iconify a window and unsuspends it when I uniconify the window. >> >> Particularly, I want to (un-)suspe

FVWM: suspending a process on Iconify

2014-05-28 Thread lee
Hi, I would like to make a function that suspends the corresponding process when I iconify a window and unsuspends it when I uniconify the window. Particularly, I want to (un-)suspend seamonkey with this (because it uses ridiculous amounts of CPU time and memory the latter of which might be swapp

Re: FVWM: fvwm and mvwm? How is fvwm?

2014-05-26 Thread lee
lee writes: > Thomas Adam writes: > >> So I don't want idle speculation or wonder to permeate the work I'm doing, >> the only thing FVWM will benefit from this will be bug-fixes, and I've >> already identified a few memory leaks. It's nice for FVWM i

Re: FVWM: fvwm and mvwm? How is fvwm?

2014-05-26 Thread lee
Thomas Adam writes: > So I don't want idle speculation or wonder to permeate the work I'm doing, > the only thing FVWM will benefit from this will be bug-fixes, and I've > already identified a few memory leaks. It's nice for FVWM in a way, it's > being audited for free as a result of this work.

Re: FVWM: Launching Applications/Configuration Question

2013-12-09 Thread lee
Thomas Funk writes: > 2013/12/5 James Griffin : >> I've got a load of functions defined in my configuration file using >> DestroyFunc/AddToFunc. What I would like to know, is how can use >> these functions to test if the application in question is already >> running? In particular, I have an Fvwm

Re: FVWM: reading a split configuration file

2013-12-06 Thread lee
Stuart Longland writes: > On 05/12/13 20:45, bastian-fvwm-org-20121...@t6l.de wrote: >> >> If you need alphabetical order try: >> PipeRead 'for i in $(echo $HOME/.fvwm/*.fvwm | sort) ; do echo Read $i; done' > > Or even: > PipeRead `ls -1 $HOME/.fvwm/*.fvwm | while read i; do echo Read $i; done`

Re: FVWM: reading a split configuration file

2013-12-06 Thread lee
bastian-fvwm-org-20121...@t6l.de writes: > On 05Dec13 11:00 +0100, lee wrote: >> | PipeRead 'for i in /bin/ls $HOME/.fvwm/*.fvwm; do echo Read $i; done' >> >> which seemed to read the contents of an executable file and tried to >> execute whatever it read as

FVWM: reading a split configuration file

2013-12-05 Thread lee
Hi, what would be the best way to read configuration file snippets from a directory or from various directories? Currently I have ~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc to start with and statements in it like , | [...] | Read fvwm-colours.fvwm | Read fvwm-desks.fvwm | Read fvwm-menustyle.fvwm | [...] ` Wha

Re: FVWM: xterm with FvwmIconBox on Fedora

2013-07-26 Thread lee
Thomas Adam writes: > On 18 July 2013 12:31, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> when starting FvwmIconBox with fvwm and then starting xterm, output to the >> xterm window does not work, i. e. the window is blank until resized or >> when the workspace is switched. > &

FVWM: xterm with FvwmIconBox on Fedora

2013-07-18 Thread lee
Hi, when starting FvwmIconBox with fvwm and then starting xterm, output to the xterm window does not work, i. e. the window is blank until resized or when the workspace is switched. When (re-)starting fvwm without the FvwmIconBox module, xterm works fine. Please see [1] for a more detailed refer

Re: FVWM: placing a window on startup

2012-09-11 Thread lee
Viktor Griph writes: > 2012/9/9 lee : >> Hi, >> >> is there a way to specify the position on the screen for a window to >> appear when a program is started? In this case, I want to appear conky >> at a particular position on the screen, and conky seems no

FVWM: placing a window on startup

2012-09-09 Thread lee
Hi, is there a way to specify the position on the screen for a window to appear when a program is started? In this case, I want to appear conky at a particular position on the screen, and conky seems not to know the -geometry option. -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc

FVWM: popup-menu question

2009-08-30 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
In a Menu, or a Popup-menu, is there a way to set them up so when the mouse focuses over one of the options that you can get a different response based on which mouse button you press? For example, on my popup-menu, if I scroll down to an item called "Web Browser", is there a way to set it up

Re: FVWM: Some fvwm functions quitting after a bit

2009-08-18 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Viktor Griph wrote: 2009/8/18 Glen Lee Edwards : Using FVWM 2.5.26 on debian lenny. �After a period of time, certian functions/features quit working, such as the title bar buttons, the menu won't appear when over a window but will over the root window. �Doing a restart doesn't work

FVWM: Some fvwm functions quitting after a bit

2009-08-17 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Using FVWM 2.5.26 on debian lenny. After a period of time, certian functions/features quit working, such as the title bar buttons, the menu won't appear when over a window but will over the root window. Doing a restart doesn't work, nor does quitting. I have to do a killall fvwm to restore f