FVWM: Re: Some fvwm config questions

From: An Thi-Nguyen Le <anle_at_ews.uiuc.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 11:04:00 -0600

This should probably go on the fvwm user list, not fvwm-workers. :)

[Paul D. Smith - Fri, 8 Dec 2000 09:43:18 AM CST]
> First, when I log in my GNOME Panel is left in the middle of the screen
> rather than along the bottom. I have to move it by hand (which wouldn't

Not much experience with GNOME weirdness here. I think there's something
in the fvwm FAQ about this; not sure.


> One other exception (where it doesn't obey the geometry) is my Emacs VM
> frame; I have it set up so that it starts in a specific position by
> adding that position to the Emacs frame display parameters... but it
> doesn't work. The odd thing is that I do the same thing for a Gnus
> frame and an Info reader frame and the main frame, and that works!
>
> Do you think it's the NoPPosition option that's causing this? I can't
> recall, now, why I added that option. Any other ideas or ways to fix
> it?

Probably. I only use NoPPosition for apps that are *really* annoying
about position (like Netscape). NoPPosition otherwise causes problems
with user geometry placement sometimes.


> I have a button panel split into three "sections": the first contains
> two buttons vertically, each pixmap is 30x27. The second contains 9
> buttons in a 3x3 square; here each pixmap is 14x14. The last section is
> a swallowed xmcd in "mini" mode.
> My problem is that I can't get the sizes correct. Not only is the width
> of the small pixmaps too big, but there's a huge tract of empty
> FvwmButton space to the right of the contents of the button bar.

There is, in the FvwmButtons manpage, a treatise on the layout algorithm.


> (3x3, Container (Columns 3, Rows 3, Frame 2))

This is the root of the problem. Don't use '3x3'; 1x1 would be better
here. You also told FvwmButtons there would only be one row of buttons.


> (6x3, Frame 0, \
> Swallow(UseOld,NoClose) miniXMcd 'Exec exec xmcd -name miniXMcd')

Here I would suggest 3x1 at best.


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