fvwm desktop scrolling

Gentree · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 3:39 pm Post subject: fvwm desktop scrolling

Hi,

I have just setup fvwm and tested some of the fvwm-themes.

Firstly I'm pretty impressed. It looked light a bit of a nightmare learning curve but the themes get you rolling with something basically usable pretty quickly.

Having spent the day playing around I've got it close to what I want. One thing I find a bit lacking is mouse scroll wheel support.

Having activated the option it works well on menus but that seems to be all.

For example I would like to be able to scroll on the desktop backgound or on the pager to flip desktops.

This is not a major headache but it was one thing that I found very ergonomic on my previous WM. Now in the mountain of configurable features and examples I have not seen anything like this.

For example would it be possible to get the pager in the cde theme to be sensitive to the mouse scrollwheel?

They seem to say you can set up anything you want with fvwm so I hope some guru can help me find out how.

TIA, Gentree.

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ashtophet · Guru Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 397

In my conf I have:

Gentree · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:02 pm Post subject:

Cool , that looks like what I want , it even covers the desktop which I was aiming to have as well.

Do you have another trick in there to keep a space at the top of the desktop from being covered by a new window? Comes to about the same thing a resevering a bit at the bottom for a task bar. I know I can make it stay-on-top style but I dont want the bottom of my windows (often a status bar area) dropping behind either.

thanks for snipet, spot on.

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ashtophet · Guru Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 397

Check "Extended Window Manager Hints" section at fvwm manpage (EwmBaseStruts option could do the trick).

Edit. Deleted irrelevant info.

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

Yes,

use EwmhBaseStruts x x x x in your config

Gentree · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:45 am Post subject:

Thanks , that seems to be exactly what is provided to achieve this result.

It took some finding , the fvwm man page must be the longest text file ever!

There's one conceptual problem I'm having will all the configuration mechanisms. Everyone refers the "the config" which it seems used to refer to .fvwmrc2 which is not obselete and has been replaced by ~/.fvwm/themes-rc-2

themes-rc-2 -> themes/current-main/themes-rc-2

The problem is when I use the "Themes GUI Center" tool to pick bits from other themes it recreates everything and blows out my changes.

Am I editing the wrong file or is there a hook somewhere to another file where I can add changes?

I could always knock up a script to append my changes each time but I suspect I'm missing something.

TIA.

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fangorn · Veteran Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 1886

FVWM-themes is a package of it's own. You can make personal settings with it too, but it has special places for this that are not touched by the scripts. Standard config files are script generated and loose all editing with the next change.

What everybody out there refers to as "the config" is a handcrafted .fvwm2rc (or in my case multiple files sourced at startup).

In the long run I prefer a selfmade .fvwm2rc over the fvwm-themes solution. It looks better and has only the features I like. If you look for a specific feature, start looking at the taviso config. It is quite extensive in its feature list. :twisted:

Many configs out there took specific features from it and integrated them into an own look and feel (As my config did)
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Gentree · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:37 am Post subject:

Ah, thanks. I had not realised the fvwm-themes was completely a separate mechanism. I get the picture now.

Looks like I need to grab whatever starting point I like from the themes and copy the resulting file to .fvwm2rc and do my edits there. Then restart using fvwm instead of fvwm-themes-start.

I may make it load the theme config with read and add my tweeks.

The power and flexibility of fvwm is great but it takes a while to get the big picture. It ammounts to learning a new scripting language.

Sadly most of the useful stuff seems to link to fvwm.lair.be which has been out of commission since I got interested in fvwm.

Hopefully it will be back up soon.

Do you have link to the famous taviso config that's not on lair.be?

thx.

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Gentree · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:33 am Post subject:

hmm, I put the following line into .fvwmrc2.

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

AFAIK ~/.fvwm2rc is pretty much deprecated. You can still use it, but it is much nicer to use $HOME/.fvwm/config

from it you can read (source) other files.

here is an example of a $HOME/.fvwm directory

i92guboj · Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:46 am Post subject:

Gentree · Posted: Mon May 04, 2015 2:57 pm Post subject:

i92guboj , this thread is quite old ( from last time I tried to configure FVWM ). Sadly the zen domain seems to have disappeared.

Do you have that material anywhere else?

Thankx.

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i92guboj · Posted: Mon May 04, 2015 6:19 pm Post subject: