>>>>> Alan Wild writes:
A> Charles Hines wrote:
>
Marco> - Is it possible to use both Swallow and Action in a button?
Marco> I'd like to swallow oclock, and have an "xclock -digital" called
Marco> I click on the oclock button.
>
> I believe once an app is swallowed, all button events get directed to
> it, so you can't do this right now. Probably should make this
> possible in the future.
A> This isn't entirely true (sorry, Chuck).
I agree.
A> Yes, once an app is swallowed all events do get directed to it, but this
A> isn't true of the label. Presently I use the following FvwmButtons
A> configuration:
A> *FvwmButtons(1x4 \
A> Title 'System Info' \
A> Swallow "xload" 'Exec xload' \
A> Action(Mouse 1) 'Exec xosview -cua0 -net 200 -ul -l -geometry 325x325' \
A> Action(Mouse 2) 'Exec xcpustate -interval 1 -bg "#a4978e" -fg black' \
A> Action(Mouse 3) 'Exec rxvt -fg "khaki" -bg "dark olive green" \
A> -fat -n top -T Top -7 -e top' )
A> This lets me start three different applications by left/middle/right
A> clicking on the label. I do wish I could have this functionality
A> without havning to set a Title, but hey. . . at least this works.
well, all MOUSE button events are passed to that app. anyways.
but if the app has wminputhints=off, it doesn't accept KEYBOARD events,
so a keypress is handled by FvwmButtons.
thus sth like
*FvwmButtons(1x4 \
Swallow "xload" 'Exec xload' \
Action 'Exec xosview -cua0 -net 200 -ul -l -geometry 325x325')
starts xosview, if you position the mouse on the xload and press enter,
without the need for the title.
well' it's not pretty, but I use it to have my emacs read my mail from xbiff.
If wminputhints=off also rejected MOUSE events, then your above example
would also work without need for the title.
albrecht
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Received on Mon Aug 19 1996 - 05:30:54 BST