"Thomas A. Gardiner" <gardiner_at_pas.rochester.edu> writes:
> >One annoyance I have is that when apps or xterms are iconized into the
> >task bar across the bottom. There is no clue as to which window they
> >expand/deiconify in.
>
> Don't know what to tell you; if you want that info, put it in the window's
> name...
Not much of a solution there since the icon scruntches down the
windows name to the point that it isn't very usefull when Iconified.
Plus bash-2.04 has scripting in stock /etc/bashrc that inserts the
user_at_host /path as title. And I like that.
[...]
> Ummmm... But as you said the geometry is shown in this menu. The
> geometry tells you where the window will be placed when it is
> de-iconified. Works for me...
Oh .... yes I see now.. A little study of the numbers and I start to
know roughly were they fall... I hadn't realized those numbers applied
across the individual panes of the pager, but took them to relate to a
single (smaller) block, each of which, for all intents is a full desktop.
>
> # NUM_DESKTOPS is number of desktops -- each desktop is DESKTOP_SIZE panes
> # DESKTOP_SIZE is a geometry specifying horizontal vs vertical number of
[...] snip nice tutorial
>
> >Do these `virtual' areas have addresses of some kind. display
> >location or something?
>
> Yes. look at the man pages for more details...
Searching thru the man page on `address' and `display' I find lots of
hits on `display' but scanning thru them, it doesn't seem to be about
the spaces displayed in my pager.
Do you have a few clues for keyword searching that will help focus the
search?
[...]
> >
> > xterm -e vim FILE :display in such and such &
> >
> >That is, open an xterm or app in a specific part of the virtual desk
> >top areas, from the command line?
>
> Yes, there is an example of this in the man pages...
>
searching the fvwm2 man page for regexp:
/xterm.* -e
yields only one hit:
AddToMenu menu-name [ menu-label action ]
Begins or adds to a menu definition. Typically a
menu definition looks like this:
AddToMenu Utilities "Utilities" Title
+ "Xterm" Exec exec xterm -e tcsh <=== HERE
And this is a config file example that isn't about where to display,
not a command line opening a display at specific address on my pager.
Any good clues for keywords to search on?
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Received on Wed Dec 20 2000 - 10:41:09 GMT