FVWM: Re: FvwmBacker

From: Shishir Mehrotra <shishir_at_icase.edu>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 18:48:29 -0500

>I've been unable to use FvwmBacker with any sort of success. I would
>really like to set it up for my four different desktops. Could someone
>who has a working .fvwm2rc file that uses FvwmBacker please mail me a
>copy of it.

i have used fvwm backer extensively and have come up with the following
configuration which worked well for me:

        *FvwmBackerDesk 0 xsetroot -solid "#266294"
        *FvwmBackerDesk 1 -solid #AA0000
        *FvwmBackerDesk 2 -solid #FFCC00
        *FvwmBackerDesk 3 -solid #888800

colors can be changed and what not but i do find colors much nicer than
icons...


One other quick comment/question. I got quite sick of using the backer
because the colors of the desktop didn't show up in the pager. so i set up
a bunch of symbolic links (FvwmButtons to PagerButtons and FvwmPager to
IncPager*). then i set the background colors of each one to be the same as
the FvwmBacker colors.... now i could simply swallow all the IncPagers
into a FvwmButtons (PagerButtons under the symlink) and it looks just like
FvwmPager, but has colors. Here is the relevant code:

*IncPager0Back #266294
*IncPager1Back #AA0000
*IncPager2Back #FFCC00
*IncPager3Back #888800

*PagerButtons - whatever SwallowModule "IncPager0" IncPager0 0 0
*PagerButtons - whatever SwallowModule "IncPager1" IncPager1 1 1
*PagerButtons - whatever SwallowModule "IncPager2" IncPager2 2 2
*PagerButtons - whatever SwallowModule "IncPager3" IncPager3 3 3


Question is, is there an easier way to do this, or perhaps a more direct
way (yes, i admit this is a bit of a hack) ???

Thanks,
Shishir

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Received on Thu Nov 30 1995 - 17:48:31 GMT