Re: FVWM: menu placement, FvwmButtons button placement

From: Alexander Sorg <sorg_at_cs.bu.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 13:48:31 -0500 (EST)

Chris Taylor wrote:
>
> My first question concerns the way FVWM draws menus near the right edge
of the
> display. I use FVWM-style menus -- submenus appear just as the pointer
touches
> a menu entry. Normally, a submenu appears to the right of its parent.
At the
> right edge of the display, however, things get crowded; the submenu appears
> directly on top of its parent. This can be a problem, especially when,
as in my
> setup, there exist more than two levels of submenus. Could FVWM be
changed so
> that, at the right edge of the display, a submenu appears to the left
of its
> parent?

i don't like to see this changed as well.
another approach could be to make submenues only pop up if you are
on the arrow on the right side of the menu entry.
of course it would be nice if you could choose the different behaviours.

> My second question addresses a long-existing problem: the method by
...

try this setup to get the xclock to the end of the buttonbar:
 
 *FvwmButtonsFore DEFAULT_FOREGROUND
 *FvwmButtonsBack DEFAULT_BACKGROUND
 *FvwmButtonsGeometry 650x40+0-0
 *FvwmButtonsRows 2
 *FvwmButtonsFont DEFAULT_TITLE_FONT
 *FvwmButtons(1x2) FVWM xlogo16.xpm menu main-menu
 *FvwmButtons(5x2) - - swallow "xloadFvwm" exec xload
-name xloadFvwm &
 *FvwmButtons Main - desk 0 0
 *FvwmButtons WebSrv - desk 0 1
 *FvwmButtons Browse1 - desk 0 2
 *FvwmButtons Browse2 - desk 0 3
 *FvwmButtons Notes - desk 0 4
 *FvwmButtons Post-Its - desk 0 5
 *FvwmButtons(1x2) - - swallow "xclockFvwm" exec xclock
-name xclockFvwm &
 *FvwmButtons WebLog - desk 0 6
 *FvwmButtons PrxyLog - desk 0 7
 *FvwmButtons Misc1 - desk 0 8
 *FvwmButtons Misc2 - desk 0 9
 *FvwmButtons Misc3 - desk 0 10
 *FvwmButtons Mail - desk 0 11
 
       alex
   


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Received on Thu Feb 22 1996 - 12:51:12 GMT

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