On Thu, 15 Feb 1996 08:47:17 -0500
chuck_hines <chuck_hines_at_VNET.IBM.COM> (Charles Hines)
wrote concerning 'Re: FVWM: Placement Styles don't work':
>
> >> What I was trying to do is to get some windows from just placing
> >> themselves into the upper left hand corner. For example all my
> >> own Motif programs do that, which is really annoying. Even when
>
> Ric> Ditto, all my motif programs do that too. I just assumed I was doing
> Ric> something stupid in my code :-)
>
> Try the above style line and see if it helps. I'm kind of suprised
> though, since I don't believe that my motif programs that I've written
> ever exhibited this behavior under fvwm...
Style "*" NoPPosition
fixes this motif problem for me. I guess I need
to go and rtfm and figure out what's going on.
> Ric> Also, something which annoys me ... some windows never have title
> Ric> bars whatever I try to do with Style. Particularly Mosaic and
> Ric> Matlab plot windows. This problem doesn't seem to occur with
> Ric> other window managers. Am I missing something basic here?
>
> Try this:
>
> Style "*" DecorateTransient
No, that didn't fix the problem with Mosaic, but something else did. For
some reason (no idea why) I had a line
Style "shell" NoTitle
which was hitting Mosaic (because it has Resource: shell ???).
Thanks Chuck.
Ric
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Richard J. Lister r.j.lister_at_aston.ac.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Research Assistant, Neural Computing Research Group
Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://www.ncrg.aston.ac.uk/~listerrj/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Received on Fri Feb 16 1996 - 06:06:43 GMT