The F? Virtual Window Manager (part 2)

eeknay · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:07 pm Post subject:

uhm, any ideas where to get those pixmaps from (for tilebar and buttons) ?
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gabe-kai · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 63 Location: Michigan, USA

Perhaps this has been answered before (I'm not sure how to search within a thread) but is there a way to use svg icons in my dock and menus? I know I can use idesk for the root window, but I'm hoping to use svg for all my wm graphics.
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Rainmaker · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:55 pm Post subject:

click on "quick search" and use "display results as: posts".

Don't know the answer to your question though
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Ruzbeh · Apprentice Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 223

Ok, I'm not happy with XFCE4 and I'm gonna switch back to FVWM. I have some neat ideas. :twisted:

I was wondering if I could maybe use the xfce4-panel with FVWM? Like when I hit minimize on the FVWM decor it would actually minimize in the panel and not become some icon or something.

s3ntient · Guru Joined: 13 Apr 2003 Posts: 304 Location: Lyon, France

Just wanted to let you guys know I modified three OpenBox pipe menu scripts to work with FVWM. There's an ACPI menu which lets you see temperature, cpu speed, remaining battery and control the cpu frequency scaling. A Gmail menu which tells you how many emails you have and can open gmail in your browser, and an emerge menu which gives you the output of emerge -uDp world and lets you update one or all of the packages.

You can see screenshots here:
ACPI
Emerge

You can get them here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=242076
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Ruzbeh · Apprentice Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 223

Okay, I got some grand ideas for my FVWM, but I need to know a few things.

True transparency for the root menu? edit: DONE

Shadows for text? (titlebar text) edit: DONE

And multipixmap for the titlebars, gonna do some searching.

edit: DONE!

Anyone know if it's possible to get _REAL_ transparency in the titlebars?

Keffin · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:32 pm Post subject:

rawoul · n00b Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 65

Noone answered me on irc, so maybe someone will know here

In my config i have:

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Keffin · Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 9:14 am Post subject:

Sorry, I thought it was a simple case of drawing a transparent image, but there is a default colour behind it that you need to get rid of too (I think that's what's up). I've never done it myself but have a look here for a screeny with a semi-transparent title-bar. In the comments below is a link to his config file.

Hope that helps.
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jerrybme · n00b Joined: 15 Sep 2004 Posts: 61

theBlackDragon · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 4:30 pm Post subject:

Hi guys, seeing as this thread (or better, these threads) continues to be popular I thought it might be a good idea to put up a forum for fvwm on it's own as that would greatly improve the searchability of the posts...

I have the necessary hosting, which I think will be sufficiënt (if necessary I can always upgrade the capacity etc.)

Now is my question twofold:

First: would anybody be interested in a separate fvwm forum?

Secondly: I was wondering about the layout, I thought about giving important modules separate forums but I'm not sure about which include... FvwmButtons, FvwmEvent are very good canditates I think but I'll wager there are more good candidates...

FvwmScript is going to get a separate section which will be about Fvwm scripting.

So basically I have this layout:

General:
- News
- The Tavern (general chat)
Basic questions:
- Installation
- Newbie questions
Configuration:
- FvwmScript
- Other scripting
- General configuration questions
Fvwm modules:
- FvwmButtons
- FvwmEvent
- ...

Tell me what you think

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Ruzbeh · Apprentice Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 223

theBlackDragon · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 6:03 pm Post subject:

Ruzbeh · Apprentice Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 223

I got a big problem, the text on my titlebars are just 1 pixel too high, it looks real bad!
Screen: http://members.lycos.nl/ultrasupreme/titlebartext.png

Anyone got any ideas?

theBlackDragon · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 6:44 pm Post subject:

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MrApples · Guru Joined: 13 Dec 2002 Posts: 511

i like the idea of a standalone fvwm forum
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eeknay · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 11:02 pm Post subject:

yup i'd go for that too
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theBlackDragon · Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 7:34 pm Post subject:

At this moment I have a basic forum up on http://fvwm.lair.be.

It's still very basic and such, but it's a start I'd say

Any comments, suggestions or other related things can be mailed to admin at lair.be or posted on the forum in "About the forum". Thanks in advance for any feedback you might have.
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plbe · l33t Joined: 01 May 2004 Posts: 661

I posted earlier in this thread but don't know how many saw it. There is now a site up for the Gentoo Community at www.splatbox.org which features themes configs for openbox, fluxbox and fvwm where you can have your fvwm configs posted and available for download theres also howtos section and more anyway I'll ask init if he wouldn't mind setting up a forum. The main thread is in gentoo chat

Gentii · Guru Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 306

I've a problem with my title bar too. It isn't the title, but the buttons that are misplaced. They are all some pixels too low. I tried to change a lot of things in the relevant section, but nothing helped.