On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 09:59:38AM -0800, Kyle Graehl wrote:
> I am setting up an old laptop computer with FVWM for my mother and it
> works great. In the current unstable there is a ClockFormat option.
>
> *FvwmTaskBar: ClockFormat <strftime format>
>
> I am not sure if FVWM functions can return values, but I think it
> would be great to allow something like this:
>
> *FvwmTaskBar: ExtendedClockText <some function that gets called at
> each UpdateInterval>
>
> This way I could get my battery level percentage down there by the
> clock. I'm sure others could find more creative uses for this. I tried
> to hack this in myself but I don't really understand C and I honestly
> couldn't see how the current system works. (Goodies.c?)
A better idea would be to make FvwmTaskBar able to swallow arbitrary windows
like FvwmButtons does. Writing a string into clock looks too "ad hoc" to me.
--
wbr,
George 'Nephrite' Potapov
Inline Technologies
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Received on Mon Dec 27 2004 - 01:28:40 GMT