Brady Montz <bradym_at_cs.arizona.edu> wrote:
> I am toying with adding a feature to FvwmIconMan where it would display
> miniature icons for each managed window, like the TaskBar does in fvwm95.
As far as I know this is not possible with fvwm2.
> The fvwm95 method, for those unfamiliar with it (as I was until last night)
> is that there is a TitleIcon style option which specifies the mini icon used
> in the titlebar (also perhaps cool. I think somebody submitted a patch to do
> this for fvwm2?) and then fvwm passes this pixmap to any interested modules
> which then do whatever. It seems to actually pass the pixmap and mask, not
> just a filename, by the way.
> I think that the main discussion about mini icons before came in the context
> of sticking them in menus, ie, if you have a menu which lists a bunch of
> programs to run, it would be nice to not have to specify by hand each icon.
hmmm, a 'TinyIcon' Style could be used by a lot of features:
modules like FvwmWindowList, FvwmIconMan...
fvwm main code: Replace the '%my_pixmap.xpm%entry' in the menu
entries...
Anyway, I doubt that an official version will have this feature before
2.1.0. But, if someone made a patch...
Lokh.
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Received on Wed Sep 04 1996 - 03:32:13 BST