Re: FVWM: icon name-changes

From: Paul Boven <e.p.boven_at_student.utwente.nl>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 10:10:39 +0100 (MET)

Hi Bob, everyone,
 
> On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Paul Boven wrote:
> > I like to be able to see at a glance whether there are any new messages in
> > my iconified xconsole, and it changes it's icon-name to "xconsole *" just
> > for that purpose. However, I do not see that happen on my screen unless I
> > move my mouse pointer over the icon, giving it focus.
> > ...
> > How much trouble would it be to make fvwm2 behave a bit more sane in this
> > regard?
[ --8<-- ]
> Can you live with having a small, unobtrusive icon pixmap associated
> with xconsole? If so, here's what you do.

Well, I tried, and I find I really really can't ;)

I made an empty 64x1 bitmap-file and made that my icon, but it looks rather
ugly, as fvwm draws a black line around it. It does do the trick for me,
but it looks bad. Prefer my old style of getting this to work, given that
I don't reboot my machine that often. Then again, that way I risk forgetting
about it and not realising, like, someone managed to su while I wasn't looking.

So I guess I'll have to either patch xconsole or fvwm2 in some way to behave
special for this problem. Yuck :) Any hints?
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Received on Mon Nov 11 1996 - 03:11:13 GMT

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