> Hey, I was thinking about something as I was rewriting part of
> my configuration, and I thought it would be neat if there were
> an option in fvwm2 where you can have fvwm2 automatically reload
> when you change the .fvwm2rc. If no option like that exists,
> what do you think about it?
There a
> In examples I see such colours as "blue40". Where are these
> identifiers defined?
On my Red Hat 6.2 system, they're in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt
The pathname might vary on different systems.
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Is anyone in a position to report about how long it took to build
FVWM under cygwin, along with CPU type/speed and memory size? I'm
figuring to take a stab at it (on a 120MHz P5, 24MB, Win95), and
would like to come up with a rough idea of how long it's likely to
take.
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While others apparently have had no problems building FVWM under CygWin,
it's not working for me. Configure claims aclocal and automake are
missing, even though they are in /bin and /bin is in the PATH. It also
claims that gcc doesn't work. How do I find out what it's doing wrong?
I'm on the li
> I know most people prefer not to have windows that you don't type in
> "steal" focus, but I prefer to have them change to focused so I can
> easier see where my pointer is.
It seems like several times a day I have trouble figuring out where
the pointer has ended up, even when it's in a focused w
> ... writing a small focus module should be not harder than
> 10 lines of perl ...
Of course, using a small-footprint window manager like FVWM to
launch a Perl script is a bit like using a firecracker to set
off an H-bomb :)
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> > > ... writing a small focus module should be not harder than
> > > 10 lines of perl ...
> >
> > Of course, using a small-footprint window manager like FVWM to
> > launch a Perl script is a bit like using a firecracker to set
> > off an H-bomb :)
>
> Any FVWM module usually is event based and s
> > Point is, Perl is *huge* (last I heard). If most of the size is
> > in the text segment, and some Perl process is already running, it's
> > possible that the incremental size of an additional process is not
> > all that big.
>
> I don't know what "huge" means for you. Are xterm or rxvt huge?
>
Is it possible, in 2.2.4 (Red Hat 6.2), to bind a titlebar button
to only some windows? The impression I get from the manpage is
that the Mouse command applies to all windows.
Specifically, I'd like to define a button 0 action on "xpdf" windows,
without causing button 0 to appear on all the other
Is it possible to configure 2.2.4 to restrict windows to the size of
the screen, even if -geometry requests larger?
Motivation: I want an xterm just tall enough to display an entire
file, but no taller than the screen. This:
xterm -geometry "80x`wc -l < $f | tr -d ' '`" +sb -sl 0 -e less $f
> > Is it possible to configure 2.2.4 to restrict windows to the size of
> > the screen, even if -geometry requests larger?
> >
> > Motivation: I want an xterm just tall enough to display an entire
> > file, but no taller than the screen ...
...
> Use "xwininfo -root" to get the screen size, then
> #include
> #include
>
> main () {
> printf("stdin is %d\n",isatty(0));
> }
>
> Then running this from Fvwm gave 2 different results, with just
> plain Exec, you get "1". With Exec and the ampersand, you get
> "0".
In a shell which does not support job control (which presumably
includes any
> > In a shell which does not support job control (which presumably
> > includes any non-interactive shell), I suspect a background task's
> > stdin is redirected from /dev/null.
>
> in zsh background jobs are stopped if it wants to read from stdin. at
> least for the default configuration, how doe
> > > Also I have Alt+F4 bound to "Close", this is intercepted ny the
> > > "surrounding" Windows window, and asks if I really want to kill the
> > > X-Server (I don't).
> > >
> > > Is there some way around this?
> >
> > Use another key?
>
> Well, I guess so...
I suspect that is the only way. W
> > > > Is there a way to configure fvwm to forbid application focus and "on
> > > > top" or "front" unless I specifically take action to focus the window
> > > > or bring it to the front?
...
> > > Not sure that I understand you right, but I think you are looking for
> > > StartsOnPage (or StartsO
> > How do I get StubbornIcons in fvwm2.4.15?
> >
> > All the documentation (FAQ/man pages/Google)
> > that I looked at simply said this has been
> > obsoleted. Does that mean it is no longer
> > possible to have StubbornIcons, or that there
> > is an alternative way to get this effect?
>
> Stubbo
> It seems to me that it should be
> the more simple and correct way to have two different (but fixed!)
> backgrounds on different desktops. Yet when I switch desk, the bg get
> redrawn every time, and it takes a little time. Not a lot, just half a
> second or so, but anyway longer than I expecte
> I am trying to a "X" as a title bar button to perform the function
> "Delete". So far the only way I can do that is by using vector
> buttons. How are these buttons designed? In the following sample:
>
> ButtonStyle 6 6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL
> PROTECTED]
> Can fvwm be set up so that the DeskTop covers two displays, so that one may
> use it to move windows from one display to the other?
I think you may be looking for Xinerama.
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After a system upgrade from Red Hat 6.2 to 9.0, which upgraded FVWM
from 2.2.4 to 2.4.16, I am trying to convert my .fvwm2rc file.
The fvwm24_convert script did part of the job, but complains about
placement styles and refers to the man page. The man page describes
what to do with several combinat
> > Also, I have a lot of decors similar to this:
> >
> > AddToDecor FvwmCons HilightColor black green
> >
> > which apparently should change to
> >
> > AddToDecor FvwmCons HilightFore black, HilightBack green
> >
> > This looks like a simple enough transformation to have been done
> > auto
> > > > Also, I have a lot of decors similar to this:
> > > >
> > > > AddToDecor FvwmCons HilightColor black green
> > > >
> > > > which apparently should change to
> > > >
> > > > AddToDecor FvwmCons HilightFore black, HilightBack green
> > > >
> > > > This looks like a simple enough trans
> Their Mom (a feral cat) wandered in off the street one day and
> insisted on gifting me with her offspring. Life has been very
> different since . . . :)
My guess is that Mom was not born feral -- more likely she had
accepted an independent lifestyle after being abandoned -- or she
would not ha
> > Whoa!! .. why all this complexity ?
> >
> > In gkrellm..
> >
> > Configuration->General(left menu)->Options(tab)
> >
> > check "Remember screen location at exit and to it at next startup"
> >
> > Isn't that what u are trying to do ?
>
> Yep, that's what I'm trying to do. Key word is trying. I
> is there a way to prevent anyone from accessing my current X/fvwm
> session with a password? Like pressing Ctrl-Alt-Something to lock and
> pressing Ctrl-Alt-Something again and entering a password to unlock?
man xlock
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I have got an application which acts as if it is able to somehow
ignore the window manager.
* Its windows are always on top of everything else, and are
effectively sticky (in that they are always present, even
if I move to a different page).
* When I move the mouse into one of them (so that i
> My basic problem is that the display for xterms don't seem to
> refresh properly. The output of different lines seems to get munged
> into the same line. Its like the newline is not be recognised.
This is, almost certainly, not an FVWM problem. Most likely one
of the stty options is not set pro
This feels like an FAQ, but I couldn't find anything there nor in
the manpage. Maybe I'm not searching for the right keywords :)
How would I set up a menu item to:
pop up a window
prompt for and read a password
close the window
launch a program and feed the password into its stdin
Speci
> ... -L../libs -lfvwm
> -L/usr/lib64 -lXpm -lstroke -lSM -lICE -lXext -lX11 -lm
>-lpng -lz
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [fvwm] Error 1
>
> [...]
>
> libXext is installed: locate libXext yields:
>
> /usr/lib/libXext.so.6
> /usr/lib
> I have a Linux system in a VM host. When I have the console up and I
> need to send the VM host a ctrl-alt-f4 (or similar), my local desktop
> intercepts those keys and sends me to the 4th TTY.
>
> Is there a way to have FVWM "ignore" that and just pass it through?
AFAIK, the CtrlAltFx combinat
> Is there no book on fvwm?
There is, but it is formatted as a manpage :)
> > Style ... FixedUSPosition, FixedPPosition
> > Style ... !UsePPosition, !UseUSPosition
> > Style ... FixedUSSize, FixedPSize
> >
> > If that helps, try removing some of the styles.
>
> It semi-worked with all three style lines added.
> However, after placing the window, I could not move i
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