The F? Virtual Window Manager

jean456 · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2003 Posts: 35

The problem is discussed here on the forums https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=4825&highlight=font+howto
and you can visit www.xfree.org and browse their documentation: I remember there was a "font de-uglyfication howto". Then, when you got antialiased fonts to work you have to append "xft:font, pixelsize,...etc" on the font-specific lines of your fvwmrc. See man fvwm for more details.

taviso · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 9:30 pm Post subject:

Take a look at this post https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=58037
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Zoltan · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 2:09 pm Post subject:

taviso · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 2:29 pm Post subject: Eye Candy Icons

This little hack is a little slow, but looks really cool

Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

Taviso, I finally figured out what your "little hack" :lol:

does....

I was reading your post from the fvwm mailing list where I first saw this...came here to the forums to ask you about it and then I see your post.

After about 5 minutes, I finally got it and I LOVE THIS!

Thanks!

Zoltan · Last edited by Zoltan on Tue Nov 25, 2003 5:43 pm; edited 1 time in total

In subject I had to abbreviate function names. Anyway, both are executed on restart.

What I want, is a function that is executed only ONCE, just on window manager startup, that's all. For example I want to run "xscreensaver -no-spash", but run it only once since the process runs in background and shouldn't be executed on every restart. Also I want to run some applications at the first time fvwm starts.

I run fvwm from gdm, that is it is executed from /etc/X11/Sessions/fvwm2. I can add execution commands there, but this would make configuration system-wide. Is there a function that is executed only once? Or maybe a shell script?
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Jefklak · l33t Joined: 26 Oct 2003 Posts: 818 Location: Belgium

Woow, this is some serious godness

Im addicted too, thanks man!

Only have two questions:
I would like to have two dockapps, an ACPI status monitor and a notes applet. Is there a way to "run" the gnome ones or so?

Wedge_ · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 8:13 pm Post subject:

Zoltan, you can add startup programs in your .fvwm2rc, like this:

Jefklak · l33t Joined: 26 Oct 2003 Posts: 818 Location: Belgium

I managed to find some dockapps, but err...
How do you "install" them?

taviso · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 8:38 pm Post subject:

Zoltan · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 8:49 pm Post subject:

enrique · Guru Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 342 Location: Denmark

Man... fvwm is great

But there are something I need to tweak:

1. If I send a window to the back with "Lower" icons on the desktop overlap the window
2. Sometimes, e.g. at random, the focus switches from Opera to xChat, while I'm typing a url, and only if xChat had focus before Opera
3. Mplayer's video window opens in 0,0 how do I get it to be centered, without doing stange stuff ©

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Jefklak · l33t Joined: 26 Oct 2003 Posts: 818 Location: Belgium

Heh i finally got it working

Zoltan · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 7:38 pm Post subject:

Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

taviso · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 7:53 pm Post subject:

Zoltan · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 8:21 pm Post subject:

Jefklak · l33t Joined: 26 Oct 2003 Posts: 818 Location: Belgium

Upper left = XMMS shortcuts. The first one is a button to access my quickMenu, second & third for volumes, 4th to rewind/stop/go back a song and last to play/load/pause etc

Hm, im having some difficulties with the dockapps.
When I resize an app, like firebird, i would like it to cover the dockapp but firebird resizes and sticks to the dockapp (it stays on bottom, firebird isnt maximalized but "stretched" between the dockapps) is there a way to setup the Maximalize command to ignore the other modules running?

Thanks!

Jefklak · l33t Joined: 26 Oct 2003 Posts: 818 Location: Belgium

Never mind, found it out.
Instead of "Maximize grow grow" you had to use "maximaze" without any arguments.

manywele · l33t Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 739 Location: Inside

Are there any good 5 day weather forecast apps that work with fvwm? I've looked at wmweather+ but it's not very pretty, I can't find any way to make it larger (i.e. readable without a magnifying glass) and the forecast doesn't seem to work. Nothing in portage seems to fit the bill. I have xplanet forecast running but I'd like something that isn't a part of the desktop. Anyone know of anything good out there?

Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

I use gdesklets....only caveat is that it requires quite a few gnome libraries...I thin gnome python was the thing that irritated me to emerge cuz it took a little while

but anyhow, one of the desklets for weather is called goodweather. check it out at http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org

manywele · l33t Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 739 Location: Inside

Yeah, I saw that but I didn't want to install the thirty other packages it needs. I have kde installed. Any others?

And while I'm asking questions, is there any way to dynamically create a form from a button on a dynamically created form? I got bogged down in a morass of nests and quotes that wouldn't work inside one another.

And does anyone have an example of toggled buttons using AllToggled or something similar in the ButtonStyle command? I've been trying to get it to work and can't even get the example in the man page to work. Can't find an rc with a working example.

Wedge_ · Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 9:24 pm Post subject:

I made a little script that generates a list of processes in a menu and kills any that you click. I remembered someone doing that with fluxbox and wanted it back. It's really basic, so if anyone wants to make it better go ahead

Save this in a file called fvwm-process-menu:

manywele · l33t Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 739 Location: Inside

Thanks Wedge_. I was just thinking about making something like that. Thanks for saving me the trouble. I had to change it to

Wedge_ · Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 10:54 pm Post subject:

Sorry, got screwed up when copy and pasting :oops:

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