Re: FVWM: Icon style and Fvwm 2.6.7

On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 01:51:26PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > So, I wonder, what changed that made this stuff break.. Can you send your config through, please? -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: Telling fvwm to not use the top left 124x1152 even for maximized windows

ing size limits to certain windows, we already have a number of different ways to specify that. Making it per-screen is a better idea (I've a patch for that in an older CVS tree, probably on Github). EWMHBaseStruts is about screen edges, not windows. Don't go perturbing this option. -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: Telling fvwm to not use the top left 124x1152 even for maximized windows

On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 01:46:32PM -0700, Jaimos Skriletz wrote: > Running that command each time you maximize a window is not needed > unless your configuration is constantly resetting the EWMHBaseStruts Likely because of: ewmhiwa -- Thomas Adam

FVWM: Happy New Year (2017)

Hi all, Happy New Year! Another good year for FVWM. I hope it continues into 2017 as well. Thanks to everyone for their hard work! -- Thomas

Re: FVWM: Telling fvwm to not use the top left 124x1152 even for maximized windows

time I > use one fvwm function for every window: Use EWMHBaseStruts. -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: Forcing a window to remain on a specific page

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 09:47:54AM -0600, Glenn Golden wrote: > Is it possible to force a given window to appear and remain only on a > particular page? (Effectively, something like "StartsOnPage", except it > would really be "StaysOnPage", i.e. the page assignment holds for all time, > not just

Re: FVWM: Session management.

dow managers. A lot of this wouldn't be required. -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: How to set a window non-sticky from sticky

;!" is not being supported for me? No. You just need to use more quotes around what your shell is interpreting and what FVWM receives. At this point though, this has nothing to do with FVWM. -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: Is there a way to find a window Id based on a window name

a window Id based on a window > name? ThisWindow (MyClass) Echo $[w.id] -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: How to set a window non-sticky from sticky

On 22 November 2017 at 13:58, Bhupendra Kumar Jain wrote: > FvwmCommand 'WindowId Silent Stick False' > > But I don't want myself to be dependent on the WindowId so was asking the > same. Use the "Pick" command. Kindly, Thomas

Re: FVWM: How to set a window non-sticky from sticky

isn't one already; making you choose the window you wanted. If you wanted to always be guaranteed a window to select, you would use: NoWindow Pick (Foo) Stick -- Thomas Adam

FVWM: Re: What are the ways/commands to create a virtual desktop through fvwm

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 07:04:00PM +0530, Bhupendra Kumar Jain wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a command already which will list the desktops which are created? Not without using FvwmPerl/perllib, no. -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: Question on "Maximize"

On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 10:09:48AM +0100, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Hi! > > Is there a differnce between a window, that was maximized using "Maximize > 100 100" and a window that is maximized by "Move 0 0, Resize $[vp.width] > $[vp.height]" ? Yes. If you use the Maximize command, then fvwm

Re: FVWM: Can we specify the size of a virtual desktop by myself

ou want. But why you wouldn't just use virtual desktops as-is and use the Scroll command to pan around them, is beyond me. I suspect you're over complicating things. -- Thomas Adam [0] http://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem

FVWM: Re: How to set the X & Y position of a newly created window using FvwmCommand in 2.6.5

c CheckMe AddToFunc CheckMe + I ThisWindow (SomeClass) Move x y z -- Thomas Adam

FVWM: Re: How to set the X & Y position of a newly created window using FvwmCommand in 2.6.5

we've just mapped -- it's a way of telling FVWM which window. The condition of this test "SomeClass" is just that -- a way of identifying which window we want to have the Move command applied to. Another way of doing this would be: Style SomeProgramOfMine InitialMapCommand Move x y z HTH, Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: Resizing BarButtons based on display size

eed to do withit. -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: Code Licence

On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 08:10:15AM +1030, Viktor Griph wrote: > I think he has moved from the above address. At least there is a > Robert J Nation who has that address listed as a previous address: > https://www.whitepages.com/name/Robert-J-Nation/Deerfield-NH/2i6uza7 I didn't know about the "J"

Re: FVWM: Code Licence

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 01:23:28PM -0700, Jaimos Skriletz wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 12:05 PM, Thomas Adam <tho...@xteddy.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 12:02:04PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: > >> Seems like a reasonable approach to me. > > > > I h

FVWM: Code Licence

. IANAL, so I cannot comment on this in that regard. However, it should be noted that this approach did have lawyers behind it to begin with. Any thoughts? -- Thomas Adam [0] https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2017/03/22/license/ [1] https://license.openssl.org/

Re: FVWM: Code Licence

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 12:02:04PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: > Seems like a reasonable approach to me. > Rob seems to have abandoned Fvwm or passed on. That would be sad, if so. I have collated a list of known authors of fvwm to date, and put it here:

Re: FVWM: Define menu-entry as disabled (greyed out)

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:17:09PM +0100, Kalten wrote: > But how would I use a Test-command to add the entry disabled and “greyed > out”? You can't. The greyed out menu entries are as a result of FVWM honouring MWM Hints. -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: Several new behaviors by switching from 2.6 to 2.8

. As for FVWM versions, there is no 2.8 version. What are you looking at? -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: Why does the list have no mailiglist headers anymore?

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 05:59:10PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Why does the list have no mailiglist headers anymore? Which headers? What do you think has changed? -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM:

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 10:04:52PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hi *, > > Am 2018-02-27 hackte Thomas Adam in die Tasten: > > The other option here is to run: > > > > fvwm-convert-2.6 > > This I had already done and it failed becasue I have MANY config

Re: FVWM:

the manpage as this will follow Read statements). I suspect---given what we're seeing here---that stray commas are the least of Michelle's concerns, which the conversion script ought to address. -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: WinList replacement wit icons?

On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 08:58:42AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Good morning FVWM GEEKS, > > while surfing the FVWM Internet for new ideas, I like to use > like under windows, mean with icons. The left side if this > > is how it should look

Re: FVWM: Jumping cursor

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 10:13:50AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Good morning, > > can someone tell me the option, which prevent a jumping cursor in the > middle of an application window? http://fvwmforums.org/wiki/Tips/FocusStealing/ -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: Escaping calls to State and Infosostore in piperead

31)' as this will throw the parser out. Try: All (State $[infostore.transi]) MoveToPage -1p -0p -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM:

r have a Button.Panel for the > windows. > Best would be if I could get the buttons to show up in the same order > as the windows is layered. Sounds as though you want to use FvwmIconMan then. -- Thomas Adam

FVWM: FVWM 2.6.8 released

Hi all, Just a note to say that FVMM 2.6.8 has been released. Nothing special in this release in terms of features. This is mostly a bug-fix release. See the following for further details and to download the release tarball: https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm/releases/tag/2.6.8 Enjoy! Thomas

Re: FVWM: FakeClick

rning this on, there's no guarantee of this working, and certainly not for any other application. As far as your copy/paste situation goes, use xsel(1) or some such instead. Then you wouldn't need to worry about this notion of keypresses at all. -- Thomas Adam

FVWM: FvwmForums: Change of engine and help with theming

Hello everyone, I know things have been rather quiet on this list of late -- but behind the scenes, there's still plenty of things happening with FVWM. One of these is we're taking a look at moving the FvwmForums away from phpBB. This was a great forum to use back in the early 2000s when there

Re: FVWM: FvwmForums: Change of engine and help with theming

on the forums. > Wish that was on the official web site instead. We could shunt the wiki over to Github as well -- that would make it inclusive of the website. -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: Full crash when using an invalid PNG for a mini-icon

On Tue, 28 May 2019 at 14:47, wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm using fvwm 2.6.7 from Debian/stretch. > > If I execute the command > > Pick WindowStyle MiniIcon password.png > > I get a full FVWM crash (and consequently an X server exit + lost work + > tears). Can you please ensure FVWM has been

Re: FVWM: _NET_WM_NAME

On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 04:30:07PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Here the relevant props: >WM_NAME(STRING) = "GNU Image Manipulation Program" >_NET_WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "[Verdon] (importiert)-1.0 (RGB-Farben > 8-Bit-Gamma-Ganzzahl, GIMP built-in sRGB, 1 Ebene) 1024x683 \342\200\223 GIMP"

Re: FVWM: FvwmForums: Change of engine and help with theming

are ultimately pointed to this list for additional help that can't be solved elsewhere, and that's OK, too. I am not expecting contributors to this project to monitor both emails and a forum if they don't want to. -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: Two small oddities

look at gtk3-nocsd (https://github.com/PCMan/gtk3-nocsd). I've just checekd my FreeBSD machine -- it's not packaged. -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: two questions about icons

On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 02:12:07PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > The default theme for fvwm includes a big box that appears in the lower > right hand corner of the screen. Is there a name for that whole thing? > If so, and if someone would be kind enough to tell me what it is, then > I'll

Re: FVWM: _NET_WM_NAME

hat property used by fvwm? _NET_WM_NAME is already supported by FVWM. What's the problem you're having? -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: focus stealing

On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 12:10, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > Hi folks, > > the man page doesn't tell (AFAICS), so I wonder how I could prevent > chrome, rocketchat-desktop and others from stealing input focus (using > FocusFollowsMouse)? See: http://fvwmforums.org/wiki/Tips/FocusSt

Re: FVWM: FvwmPerl not compatible with Perl 5.26 and later?

On Sun, Dec 08, 2019 at 03:55:50PM -0800, Lance wrote: > Is this a known issue? I looked at the source code for fvwm 2.6.9 and it > seems to have to same issue. Fixed in git, yes. -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: FvwmPerl not compatible with Perl 5.26 and later?

On Sun, Dec 08, 2019 at 03:55:50PM -0800, Lance wrote: > Is this a known issue? I looked at the source code for fvwm 2.6.9 and it > seems to have to same issue. If you could check master, I can release a bug-fix version of FVWM for this. Just let me know. Kindly, Thomas

Re: FVWM: Change window decoration mouse button mapping for just one app?

c X AddToFunc X + I ThisWindow ("ClassOfApplicationYouWantToKeep") Break + I Close Other options such as using FvwmEvent also exist. -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: Style ... SkipMapping

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 06:36:13PM +0100, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > And it works? Well, I have "FixedPPosition" rather than "NoPPosition". > Could that matter? Or is the relevent difference that you start the > browser from within "fvwm" while I'm starting it from within a shell >

Re: FVWM: Changing mouse cursor size

Hi Dominik, On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 12:57:20AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: > Debian based distros seem to have some kind of scalable "cursor > themes". Has anybody (i) tried to use them with fvwm and (ii) > managed to actually define a custom scaling factor without using > some config dialog from

Re: FVWM: FVWM3: RandR quirks and solutions?

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 05:20:07PM -0600, Brian wrote: > I know that Thomas is removing some redundant functions, I wonder if > fvwmform is one of them? That's correct. FvwmForm was removed in commit 7b8684385826d71b38be96f3c1a4e82c39aa4b38 > Fvwm manpages can always be contributed to the list

FVWM: FVWM3: RandR support ready for testing

Hi all, Please can I ask any willing volunteers reading this to take a look at the master branch of FVWM3 and try it out [0]? Your current configs will be valid (FVWM3 will look in the same locations as fvwm2), minus the deprecation of the Xinerama* commands. Previous module support for

Re: FVWM: Q: What is the config entry for selecting a theme?

On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 03:00:11PM -0500, Steven Lembark wrote: > I've revewed doc's at the fvwm.org site, checking the FAQ (which > entirely lacks an answer to what should be a simple question) Patches welcome on this, if you feel something should be improved. > and the "themes"

FVWM: Fvwm Forums back online

Hi all, Just a quick note to say that myself, Somiaj, and theBlackDragon have resurrected the fvwm forums: https://fvwmforums.org All previous data from the old forums has been preserved, and those of you who had existing accounts, and had posted before, will still find you have an account.

Re: FVWM: missing titlebar, decorations for one program (Microsoft Teams electron app)

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 05:38:15PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0uXm_EuziOQJ:https://fvwmforums.org/forums/topic/opera-now-has-no-decorations-how-to-restore/+=5=en=clnk=au > > Agreed? Agreed. -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: FVWM3-1.0.0 is released

On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 07:42:58AM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > Martin Cermak writes: > > > On Thu 2020-09-03 09:49 , Dominik Vogt wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 02:06:10AM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > >> > Well, we did it. Version 1.0.0 of Fvwm3 is now live

Re: FVWM: FVWM3-1.0.0 is released

On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 02:13:18PM -0700, elliot s wrote: > Retrying from laptop since fvwm mail doesnt like my tablet gmail (html issue). > > Is there a way to get a precompiled 64 bit version? > Perhaps put one up on the site? > I check pkgs.org but I assume it'll be a long time before it hits

FVWM: Fvwm3-RC0 is released

Hi all, I've just released RC0 of Fvwm3. Doubtless there are a few bugs still to fix (hence the first RC), and I'm going to be remain cautious on this one as it's the first step towards an actual 1.0.0 release of Fvwm3. Please do give this a try. See:

FVWM: Calling Old Timers! Fvwm FTP mirrors, anyone?

Hi all, I'm planning on piecing together a richer timeline of how Fvwm started. It feels like a good time to do this now. I know there's existing Fvwm history page which is a really good start [1], but I was wondering if I could take that a stage further to back it up with Fvwm releases. I

Re: FVWM: Calling Old Timers! Fvwm FTP mirrors, anyone?

On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 01:23:49PM -0600, Glenn Golden wrote: > Hi Thomas, Hello Glenn -- hope you're well. > Let me know which (if any) files you'd like, I'll tar them up and dump them > on a public file site somewhere. (Or, if there's wider historical interest > than just the FVWM stuff, I can

Re: FVWM: Identify window by PID?

On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 06:09:26PM +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Greetings, > > is there a way to identify a window by the PID of the process running in > it? So I could do something along the lines of > >All (... ...) WarpToWindow 50 50 > > I didn't yet find a solution at > >

Re: FVWM: Calling Old Timers! Fvwm FTP mirrors, anyone?

On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 07:34:57PM -0600, Glenn Golden wrote: > NOTE: This file.io file sharing site is download-once-then-auto-delete, > so grab it before anyone else on the list does. :) Hey Glenn, Alas, it's already a 404 -- so I guess something/one beat me to it. Perhaps you could send me

FVWM: FVWM3-1.0.0 is released

Hi all, Well, we did it. Version 1.0.0 of Fvwm3 is now live and ready to be installed. See: https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3/releases/tag/1.0.0 It's not without its rough edges, but that's true of any software. Even though I've called those out in the release notes, I consider Fvwm3 now good

Re: FVWM: Fvwm3-RC0 is released

On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 11:03:49AM -0500, Brian wrote: > There is one comment. On the Installation Instructinos page, under > Manually, the first sentence ends akwardly. Did you mean "core or > optional" or "core and optional" ? I believe you meant the latter that > both core and optional

Re: FVWM: Fvwm3-RC0 is released

On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 11:29:12AM -0400, gi1242+f...@gmail.com wrote: > Very cool, thanks! Is there an upgrade guide/list of changes since > Fvwm2? I couldn't find it on the website. I've added some preliminary notes here: https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3/releases/tag/1.0.0-rc0 > (I see that

Re: FVWM: FvwmForm replaces FvwmPrompt (fvwm 2.0.41)

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 08:43:45PM +0200, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Anno domini 2020 Wed, 26 Aug 19:37:03 +0100 > 1998 ... could it be that the SuSE Linux of 1995 has it? I remember I used > fvwm95 around that time. I'll go to archive and check :) That's not logical. Fvwm95 was a fork. See

FVWM: FvwmForm replaces FvwmPrompt (fvwm 2.0.41)

Hi, I'm curious about a piece of Fvwm history. In the git log for fvwm2, the initial revision (which is when Jason committed the Fvwm code to CVS), notes the following for Fvwm 2.0.41: Removed FvwmPrompt (use FvwmForm instead, since it's better anyways) This was sometime in 1998,

Re: FVWM: FvwmForm replaces FvwmPrompt (fvwm 2.0.41)

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 03:03:10PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > Wow, fvwm history that is before my time? (I think.) I didn't think that was possible! Damn. :) > All I can come up with is a config file with this: > > AddToMenu Module-Popup"Modules" Title > +

Re: FVWM: FvwmForm replaces FvwmPrompt (fvwm 2.0.41)

41 is somewhere between August 1995 and June 1996 - kind of a blind > spot in my archive. Still it might be in the shrinkwaped box of 1998 which I > dare not to open ... What archive do you own? Is this a private collection or something you've found on Google? -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: FvwmForm replaces FvwmPrompt (fvwm 2.0.41)

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 03:03:10PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > Wow, fvwm history that is before my time? (I think.) I managed to track down Drew Moseley (the original author of FvwmPrompt), and he had this to say: Hi Thomas, Thanks for reaching out. Yes, indeed that was me.

Re: FVWM: FVWM on a high density screen -> FvwmForm

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 09:02:09PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > First, DTL is crap, you really want to use ISPF as it was originally > designed. You create a text image of the screen using punctuation > to mark input and output fields. Hehe. It's an interesting idea and one which probably still

Re: FVWM: No module "FvwmTaskBar" in Fvwm 2.6.9?

On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 01:31:23PM +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Others have also pointed me to > >https://www.fvwm.org/Wiki/Panels/FvwmTaskBar/ > > and that helped me re-implementing my taskbar, except for the clock dis- > playing the current date as tooltip when hovering the mouse

Re: FVWM: No module "FvwmTaskBar" in Fvwm 2.6.9?

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 06:18:26PM +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > > 2. After I upgraded again from Fvwm version 2.6.5-r3 to 2.6.9 I found > > >that the manpage "/usr/share/man/man1/fvwm.1.bz2" is missing. Is > > >this Gentoo specific or did I look in the wrong place? > > > >

Re: FVWM: No module "FvwmTaskBar" in Fvwm 2.6.9?

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 04:59:42PM +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Thomas, Hello Rainer, > On Saturday, 2020-08-15 12:36:24 +0100, you wrote: > > > ... > > Custom tooltips aren't possible in FvwmButtons yet. > > Well, I think I'll survive with just the clock :-) Cool! > However, two other

Re: FVWM: No module "FvwmTaskBar" in Fvwm 2.6.9?

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 01:35:46PM +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > While I think I could also provide the buttons via module "FvwmButtons" > and could use a separate digital clock application, I did neither find > an "AutoHide" specification for "FvwmIconMan" nor for "FvwmButtons". Autohide

Re: FVWM: FVWN on a high density System76 screen

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 06:54:53PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > Recently I went from a 1600x1200 monitor to a 3840x2160 monitor. > > Fvwm was the least of my problems. Same here. Mind you, even on laptops with 4K screens (so-called HiDPI), the situation is diabolical. X11 really doesn't work

Re: FVWM: FVWN on a high density System76 screen

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 07:25:36PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > A few years ago I spent a couple of days trying to make FvwmForm and > FvwmScript use shared code to create their widgets. Unfortunately, > the French comments in FvwmScript defeated my attempts to understand > what goes on in

Re: FVWM: Microsoft Teams

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 05:50:36PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > So I endet more than one time now, typing password into teams where it > should never ever been. > > I already have !FPFocusByFunction and !FPFocusByProgram set but it > doesn't work. Teams might be implicitly using XSetInputFocus()

Re: FVWM: FVWN on a high density System76 screen

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 07:58:59PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > We had a French developer working with us for many years. > Right now I can't recall his name, I used to fix up all the > documentation he wrote. He offered to fix up the comments but > never got around to it. Olivier Chapuis, most

Re: FVWM: detecting "continuous" keyboard modifier

-- only tab key released here > > I don't recall seeing anything about this in the docs -- but that > doesn't mean it's not there! :-) This is not possible at the moment. Kindly, Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: Microsoft Teams

turn 0; } - -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: FVWM2: Test if windows has title bar

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 08:41:10PM +0200, Carsten Kunze wrote: > Hello, > > how is it possible to test if a window has a title bar (i.e. an equivalent to > the test if a windows has resize handles with "ThisWindow (HasHandles)")? No. But I'm reminded of this:

Re: FVWM: FVWM on a high density screen -> FvwmForm

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 05:44:10PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > I had a lot of experience with IBM ISPF panels. > I wanted to model FvwmForm along those lines. > That's were the data reading and saving came from. That's amazing! I really don't know anything about IBM's early software. The closest

Re: FVWM: When will fvwm3 be ready to start trying out?

Hi, On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 08:33:48PM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: > I've been using fvwm2 for a while, but I do find the syntax a bit hard > to follow. That hasn't changed in Fvwm3 (yet), and certainly won't any time soon. > I've also had problems getting many example configs to work right.

Re: FVWM: FVWN on a high density System76 screen

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 07:25:36PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > A few years ago I spent a couple of days trying to make FvwmForm and > FvwmScript use shared code to create their widgets. Unfortunately, > the French comments in FvwmScript defeated my attempts to understand > what goes on in

FVWM: #fvwm IRC channel has moved to libera.chat

Hi all, For anyone here who's used to stopping by the #fvwm IRC channel on freenode, please be aware that I've officially moved this channel to irc.libera.chat. Freenode have been having some internal issues and a number of channels are moving to other IRC servers -- ours is irc.libera.chat

Re: FVWM: Thank you for your work and suggestions for new FVWM features

> 1. Is it possible to add a feature similar to the visual window list switch > in XFCE or other desktop environments, with window thumbnails / icons > rotating horizontally? I have looked into the possibility of writing an FVWM > script, similarly to the script that attempts to imitate this

Re: FVWM: Interview fvwm developers

On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 06:53:05PM +0200, Keywan Tonekaboni wrote: > I'm looking for an interview with one of the developers of the early > days. If you could help me, how to contact Robert Nation, Chuck Hines or > somebody else, that would be great. How far back is "early days"? I am sure Dan

Re: FVWM: Thank you for your work and suggestions for new FVWM features

On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 12:13:49PM +1000, Wojciech Lipinski wrote: > Perhaps I could help a little bit with the content cleaning and merging. I > do not have much spare time either but I could do what I can in the time > available. I am not sure how http://fvwm.sourceforge.net/ relates to >

Re: FVWM: Positioning transient pager on screen

On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 08:54:50AM -0500, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote: > Greetings, Hello. > I have tried a number of things to move the window, but figured I'd ask: > what's the proper way to make a transient instance of FvwmPager move to > an x position of 70 pixels, and a y position of 0

Re: FVWM: Trouble with transient windows

On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 08:22:16PM +0530, Mandar Mitra wrote: > I would like the transient windows to not affect focus at all. I looked at > the manual page for the FPGrabFocusTransient, FPGrabFocusTransient, > FPReleaseFocusTransient, and similar options, but I couldn't figure out what > I

Re: FVWM: fvwm focus change causes vim to leave insert mode

On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 03:34:56PM -0400, John Sellens wrote: > When I have the vim editor open in an xterm window, in insert mode, > and move my mouse (and focus) into another window, the vim in the > original window receives some sort of escape sequence that causes > it to leave insert mode and

Re: FVWM: window swallowing

On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 02:06:49PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: > I've been using fvwm pretty much exclusively for so long, that I'm > not sure anymore whether some features are unique to fvwm, or might > be available elsewhere with different names. > > In particular -- the notion of FvwmButtons

Re: FVWM: controlling thunderbird

Hi, On Sun, 18 Sept 2022 at 10:46, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > Hello, > > I have troubles with thunderbird (class thunderbird-default) always > appearing in the middle of the screen, even if my placement policy would > put it on the right side. Style thunderbird StartsOnScreen Works fine for

Re: FVWM: EdgeScroll breaks after restart

On Tue, 17 Jan 2023 at 10:05, Parragh, Szabolcs wrote: > > Hi, > I have a weird issue, where EdgeScroll breaks after I restart fwvm. The > cursor even doesn't (as it does when it works) change as I move it to > edge and I cannot go over to the next desktop with the mouse. > > I was able to

Re: FVWM: mwmborder style in 1.0.6

On Fri, 4 Nov 2022 at 21:39, elliot s wrote: > What's the planned way of having minimal but existing relief in buttons? No. It was not. I'll push a fix for this momentarily. -- Thomas

Re: FVWM: google meet presentation versus fvwm viewports

f, etc. You might be able to check this with `xprop -spy`. I'm sure I recall seeing this behaviour when using Zoom a few years ago. -- Thomas Adam

Re: FVWM: fvwm3: how to make qmmp2 sticky?

On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 at 19:31, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > Hi folks, > > using fvwm3 and > > Style "qmmp" NoTitle, WindowListSkip, Sticky, StaysOnBottom > > qmmp2 (https://sourceforge.net/projects/qmmp-dev/files/qmmp/2.1/) is not > sticky. The other attributes from the list work as

Re: FVWM: emulating mouse button 2 on HP touchpad

On Sun, 14 May 2023 at 22:12, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: > So the problem is an incompatibility between xterm and fvwm syntethic > events (or a syntax problem with PointerKey ?) > > Is there a solution ? No. By default generating synthetic events is considered a security risk. which is why so many

Re: FVWM: fvwm: ../../src/xcb_io.c:626: _XAllocID: Assertion `ret != inval_id' failed.

On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 10:36:48AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > sometimes fvwm 2.70 (built by Debian) dies with Please take a look at the last master commit in the fvwm2 repo. AFAIK, this should fix the problem. Kindly, Thomas

Re: fvwm2 -> fvwm3 (War: FVWM: Resizing)

On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 08:51:00PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Am Mo den 8. Mai 2023 um 19:24 schrieb Thomas Adam: > > In fvwm3, randr support supports this without a restart, but it needs more > > testing. > > That brings me to the topic I did long postponed. > >

Re: FVWM: Oddity with Mouse 2 using fvwm 2.6 & 2.7 on Suse Tumbleweed

On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 01:26:45PM -0700, mark_at_yahoo wrote: > AddToFunc StartFunction > + I ImagePath > $[HOME]/.local/share/icons/hicolor/48x48:$[HOME]/.local/share/icons/hicolor/64x64:$[HOME]/.local/share/icons/hicolor/72x72:+ Setting ImagePath here is a little counter-intuitive. It's a

Re: FVWM: Resizing

On Sun, 7 May 2023 at 09:08, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Hi fvwm folks, > > what is the best method to react to resizing displays? Be it on beamer > or in a virtualbox. > > Usually, fvwm does not apply to such an event and need to be restarted. > But this is suboptimal and I would like to find a

Re: FVWM: fvwm3?

On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 05:50:44AM +0100, hw wrote: > I still don't see why it shouldn't be possible. I never expected a > port, and I understand that the architectures of X11 and Wayland are > very different. Yet why shouldn't it be possible to create a > compositor that provides the

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