The F? Virtual Window Manager (part 3)

varikin · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 16

I have been twiddling with Taviso's FvwmBar (FvwmButton based taskbar - very nice) to make it act similiar to pypanel. I have a swallowed FvwmIconMan and a clock. Now I am trying to have a button that displays the current desktop. How would I accomplish this?

I tried:

cubancigar11 · Guru Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 340

Hi all!
I am using taviso's fvwm config file and everything is fine. But I want to use gkrellm instead of xosview. Is it possible? I want to use certain modules of gkrellm only, like disk module, memory module etc.

fangorn · Veteran Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 1886

I use gkrellm too. gkrellm is monolilthic, you can only deactivate modules for an existing instance. But you can start more than one instance if you want to split to seperate places of the desktop.
I am afraid you will have to edit the config to achieve this :roll:

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geniux · Veteran Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1400 Location: /home

Hi again all :wink:

I've been playing around and changing the looks of my Fvwm everything works great, except for one small thing. I'm trying to get an image that I've edited to work as the rootmenu title, it shows up though but the menu get twice as big as it should be and the icon shows up in the topleft and the menusettings shows up at the right side. This looks wierd
How it looks now (except that it's twice as wide):

zolar czakl · Apprentice Joined: 25 Sep 2004 Posts: 162 Location: UMRK

Try:

geniux · Veteran Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1400 Location: /home

Duh, now I feel really dumb. Spent most of my time yesterday trying different settings and searching for an answer but didn't find anything
Works perfectly, thank you very much

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nss · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 389

Currently I have a FvwmBar that swallows FvwmIconMan. This bar is located at the bottom of my screen. I would like to add another FvwmBar at the top of my screen. There I'll have other things inside the FvwmBar (besides FvwmIconMan), but am unsure how to do this. How do I get Fwvm to handle two instances of FvwmBar? I'm using the FvwmBar from Taviso's config, slightly modified.

--Update--
I figured out how to have two FvwmBar's. Things are working well but I can't seem to figure out how to make the LockingSlide function work for the top FvwmBar. Here's the code for the LockingSlide of the bottom FvwmBar. (Thanks taviso.)

pilla · Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:32 pm Post subject:

Merged last post.
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HotGinger · n00b Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Posts: 8

The fvwm config file according to Taviso's fvwm2rc. After I migrated X11R6 to modular X, there are tow problems.
1. For the font settings,
"-bitstream-bitstream vera sans-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1, -misc-simsun-medium-r-normal-*-11-*-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1" works fine with X11R6, but for modular X can only show English properly, for Chinese, the text is incomprehensible.

2.After minimize the windows, show the program icons but not thumbnail on the desktop.

mikegpitt · Advocate Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 3224

Does anyone know why there is such a holdup getting new versions of fvwm in portage? Now we are 2 versions out of date.

Sorry if this was discussed above, I didn't want to wade though the whole huge thread.

fangorn · Veteran Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 1886

If you dont use translucent menus you can just copy the last ebuild to a overlay, get rid of all the patches and install newer version. I additionally copy over the fvwmtabs code from CVS as it is more stable for me (yeah, I have been addicted to fluxbox :twisted:

)

But I would prefer a maintained, official ebuild too :roll:

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Dominique_71 · Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 8:21 pm Post subject:

Taviso, I was reading the first part of this subject, and it is a brief discussion about a common menu system for all the wm in gentoo and a link to the glep 16. Debian have such a menu system.

I filled a bug repport it was a few weeks ago: Feature request: menu management as in Debian

I hope at this info can be usefull. Debian don't use the desktop file for this program. I think because not all the programs have such a desktop file. Basiquely, it is in 3 parts, the menu program itself and its general configuration files, a method file in the debian packages for each wm, and a configuration file in the debian packages for each program. Those last files is a text file with some variables (the command, the menu category, ...). If I look in those files, the category for the menu can be extrapoled from the portage tree, the command can be extrapoled from the .desktop file when a program have such a file. An other way to do that will be to add 2 variables in the ebuild, one to tell the menu if it is a X or a console application, the second one with the command. Some packages can have multiple commands.

It is a little more information about the debian menu syetm in the bug repport. I hope at this info can be usefull to you.
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Dominique_71 · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 10:55 am Post subject:

Thesee · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:39 pm Post subject: wallpaper makes me crazy...

Hello all,

I've been using Fvwm for a couple of months and tried to tweak it to my needs (from taviso's config).
My problem comes from the wallpaper browser. I didn't use this wallpaper browser for a while, and recently, I tried to use it... and it doesn't work anymore :cry:

Here are the relevant parts of my .fvwm2rc:

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Thesee · Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:06 am Post subject:

Thanks ThomasAdam!
Actually, thanks to the backtrace, I checked the output of the startx command (to actually see if it was telling me "Segmentation Fault) or something). There I saw a message like "No enough vertical space". And then I got it!
As in the config the dir was where the wallpapers are, it wasn't trying to display the thumbnails, but all the wallpapers! Thus it couldn't display. I pointed to the .thumbs directory, and it showed them all!
After that, just a change in the function did the trick:

geniux · Veteran Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1400 Location: /home

Hi all

I feel that it's time to upgrade my panel, it's been around for awhile now, but I don't know how to do it as I want it or if it's possible. So I thought it might be worth asking in this thread
The panel I have to day are using the shape function with an transparent xpm background, I still want a background like that but I want it to be smaller than the icons on it, so the icons gets outside the top and bottom edge. So is this possible? If so how do I configure it?

TIA
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