Introduction to FvwmButtons

spadearcher · Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 11:43 pm Post subject:

I was taught that use of the "cat" command in the Linux introductory class I took in the evenings last year at my nearby community college. I'll now give your recommended method a try. Thanks, Jim

spadearcher · Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:52 am Post subject:

Thomas: Following your steering me ultimately in the right direction, I was able to follow Taviso's tutorial at the top of this thread explicitly -- and everything proceeded fine. I was able to bring up his button configuration (labeled LaunchTime) repeatedly from my personal menu, after I'd entered it there in accord with his (and your) instructions.

The one catch now seems to be that after I quit FVWM, returned to my Gentoo command line, then went back into FVWM (via startx) the LaunchTime button panel had disappeared. I re-created it in the FvwmConsole, worked with it awhile as before, then quit FVWM, and it disappeared again. How can I "save" it in my FVWM system? Or do these modules disappear when I quit FVWM by their very nature? Nothing was in Taviso's instructions regarding the method for saving what I (we) had created. Not very useful! Regards, Jim

Also, I was not able to get the icons to work -- even with downloading them and trying to install them following Taviso's instructions elsewhere in this forum.

colinbarnette · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:24 am Post subject:

Hello all,

I am having a problem with a swallowed application not centering. Googled fairly extensively on it but didn't come up with much, so I hope you can help!

http://colinbarnette.net/code/cap.jpg - A screen cap of the problem.

i92guboj · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 2:35 am Post subject:

mimosinnet · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:52 pm Post subject:

I have started using fvwm and I find it awesome!

I would like to have different FvwmButtons for each desk/page (so I can have the common applications I use in each desk/page easily available). The idea is that each desk/page should be different depending on the work I am doing in it. I have been using this in WindowMaker (different application icons in each different virtual desktop) and in fluxbox mixing different applications (see this post). This is a feature that does not seem to be common in window managers (you can have a look to this thread in KDE).

I have look at the post and in the FvwmButtons, but I do not see how to do it. Could anybody give me some advice? Thanks!

mimosinnet · Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:32 pm Post subject:

Done!

I have found the instruction StartsOnPage that defines in which desktop/page a module appears. This is my (still very basic) FvwmButtons config that illustrates how to get different FvwmButtons in each page/desktop with different backgrounds. When I get into a page FvwmButtons gives me the name of the page and the (shortcuts to applications) I normally use in that page, allowing to avoid complex menus as much as possible.

Cheers!

DestroyModuleConfig Confi: *
Module FvwmButtons Confi
*Confi: Rows 3
*Confi: Columns 2
*Confi: Geometry 60x90+0+0
*Confi: Back Yellow
*Confi: (1x1, Icon konqueror.png, Action(Mouse 1) 'Exec konqueror --profile filemanagement')
*Confi: (1x1)
*Confi: (1x1)
*Confi: (1x1)
*Confi: (1x1)
Style Confi StartsOnPage 0 0 0,!Button 1,!Button 2,!Button 4,!Borders

DestroyModuleConfig Consola: *
Module FvwmButtons Consola
*Consola: Rows 3
*Consola: Columns 2
*Consola: Geometry 60x90+0+0
*Consola: Back Pink
*Consola: (1x1, Icon konsole.png, Action(Mouse 1) 'Exec konsole')
*Consola: (1x1)
*Consola: (1x1)
*Consola: (1x1)
*Consola: (1x1)
Style Consola StartsOnPage 0 1 1,!Button 1,!Button 2,!Button 4,!Borders

Dominique_71 · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:54 pm Post subject:

As Taviso have retired, is it some way that we can have back his page on fvwm? The links are not working anymore, and it would be great if some backup can be made accessible somewhere.
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