The F? Virtual Window Manager (part 2)

Zumi · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 12:38 pm Post subject: Menu icons resize

Can you give me a little help please? I want to make my icons in the menus to be all the same size and don't change the icon files physically.
I'm aware of the new IconSize options (New option to IconSize style: Adjusted, Stretched, Shrunk.) introduced in 2.5.6, but it doesn't do anything with the menu icons, if put a line in my .fvwm2rc:

theaks · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 30

I've just started with fvwm and i'm configuring it step by step as i'm learning. I assume i'm doing something stupid at the moment, but I haven't been able to figure it out from looking at other posts & scripts.

I'm setting up my windows decorations at the moment, I've managed to set a titled pixmap as the title bar background and justify the window title to the left. Now I'm trying to add a close button to the titlebar, but it just won't appear and i have no idea why. Here are the relevant parts of the config.

plbe · l33t Joined: 01 May 2004 Posts: 661

I've started a thread in gentoo chat for the sole purpose of posting FVWM scripts and nothing more so we can easily access scripts without digging through pages upon pages of this thread as well as the previous one. So even if a script has been posted in one of these threads it would be nice to see it in the other one for nice easy access for all FVWM users out there

Thread can be found here:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=246545

theBlackDragon · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 7:39 pm Post subject:

theaks · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 30

Cheers, I've got the buttons showing up now, but there is an ugly line next to them, I've added a screenshot so you can see what i mean. How do I get rid of it?

I haven't changed my config from above except to add the new button and the mouse bindings.

http://www.hardlovecowboys.com/sc.png

theaks · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 30

I solved my problem, i added -- flat to all the Pixmap styles i added. Surely this isn't the only way to do it though

theBlackDragon · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 5:52 pm Post subject:

plbe · l33t Joined: 01 May 2004 Posts: 661

Hrm haven't heard anything here from taviso in a while....hey tav you got any interesting new scripts your working on for us

zeroK · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 11:59 pm Post subject:

Hi

Sorry, if the following question is a real beginner question but ... well, that's exactly what I am using FVWM ;-)

I've now played around with it for the last few hours and got nearly everything set up as I want it to be, but one thing is still missing :-)

In openbox3 the windowlist (alt+tab) highlights a window showing the shade of the window and increasing its border width when the window is "highlighted" in the windowlist. Is there someway i could at least partially simulate this feature in FVWM? For example by using a different borderwidth and/or a different bordercolorset?

Zepp · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 12:13 am Post subject:

I don't know if this has been asked before but, is there a way to move a specific window or make it invisible completely? Mor precisely a FvwmButtons panel. I want to be able to hide and reveal it with a single key combination. I tried the hiddenconsole trick but it leaves the black strip of the shaded window.
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meital · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 93

does anybody know if fvwm supports transparent pixmaps on titles, menus and the pager and how to configure it?
sorry if this is already mentioned somewhere..

theaks · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 30

I've set up my pager how i want it, except the only problem is when i iconify a window it doesn't disappear from the pager window. How can i set my pager up for this to happen. Also it would be great if the pager window didn't show up on the active page too.

Heres the config lines that i think apply to this problem

theBlackDragon · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 4:10 pm Post subject:

Try using:

hatem · n00b Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 72 Location: Florida

Well, here's my fvwm setup. It's pretty much a customized collection of things I've seen in others' configs and liked, very little is my own original work

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Just some names off the top of my head: tln for the layout of the basic config and the window decorations, random things from taviso, some of stazz's window decorations...

Screenshot (modified version of tln's "clean" theme, torsmo-cvs, etc)
Tarball (**rename DOTfvwm2rc to .fvwm2rc ... for some reason i couldn't make a tar that included files starting with . )

Please be merciful on my poor web server, it has a pitiful upload speed of 20kB/s.

Enjoy

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Martini · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 141

Hi

First, thanks to all for the good tips and the great threads about fvwm-configs. It's very interesting. I'm relatively new to fvwm but i love this WM.
I've a question to xosview. I've swallowed xosview in a transparent fvwm-buttons bar. The background is transparent like the fvwm-buttons bar. Is there a way to get the backgrounds of the indicator-bars transparent? That would be great. Has anyone a config for xosview?

my config for fvwm-buttons:

appetitus · Apprentice Joined: 28 Sep 2003 Posts: 208

Back in FVWM 1.24r, the window manager had Motif support, I could run a Motif application and it worked fine.

Now I have the CMUCL Motif debugger and I cannot get it started. It complains about failing to find a socket, altho I can find a socket in tmp.

Anyone have Motif capability working?

EDIT: got it working
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theaks · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 30

I'm thinking about setting my desktop up with multiple desktops with probably 2x2 virtual desktops each.

Is it possible to have different background images & windows decorations for each desktop?

theBlackDragon · Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 7:41 pm Post subject:

Aim · n00b Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 7

Hi there,

I'm working on some project of which all windows are in fullscreen (i.e without decoration).
I'd like to have the dialogs decorated but I can't manage to do it.
I've tried the DecorateTransients and Style "*" DecorateTransient but it's not working.

Any help would be greatly apreciated

Thanks

theBlackDragon · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 2:10 pm Post subject:

Works for me:

Aim · n00b Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 7

theBlackDragon · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 5:21 pm Post subject:

It sounds like you're looking for something like this.

Maybe that will get you started

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tln · Veteran Joined: 24 Sep 2003 Posts: 1502

I can't seem to get the Toggled* button states to apply. I have Style * MwmDecor, so my decor should follow the application hints. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I'm trying to get the maximize button to look different when it's pressed (maximized). I'm using

theBlackDragon · Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:13 am Post subject:

tln · Veteran Joined: 24 Sep 2003 Posts: 1502

It should stay in pressed state while the window is maximized, and then return to normal when I press the maximize button again. ActiveDown only applies during the time you keep your mouse button pressed over the button.