>>>>> David Kennedy writes:
D> R.Tanner said:
> 1. In my buttonbar I have a swallowed xterm which is very useful, but I have
> to click on it before I can enter text, whereas my normal xterms focus as soon
> as my cursor moves onto them. Is there a way to make a swallowed xterm focus
> like a window does?
D> As far as I know you'd have to allow the whole button bar to have focus just
D> like a window. I keep track of commands I'm always typing to start programs
D> etc and add a button instead. A swallowed xconsole takes care of error messages
D> and the like instead of a xterm then.
have you set the buttonbar ClickToFocus by any chance ???
> 2. Is there a way for a swallowed object in my buttonbar to still act as a
> button. In particular I want buttons that make remote logins to other servers
> which have the load graph as their face. I can make each part work seperately,
> buttons for logins and others with swallowed xmeters but is there a way to
> combine them?
currently no.
I asked the ButtonBar author about it months ago, but it's still not there.
Maybe I'll eventually dig around in the buttonbar code, too.
D> I honestly don't know about this one, I know you can do different things
D> with different mouse clicks...anyone else know? Its a nice idea.
> 3. Netscape doesn't seem to obey my configuration. I have smartplacement
> selected in my .fvwm2rc file but rather than find an empty area netscape
> allways appears in the top left corner of the screen. Is there a way to
> fix this?
D> No fix that I know of, it does this in my setup as well. Annoying isn't it?
D> Just start it with a given geometry perhaps, again quite simple if you have it on
D> a button.
NoPPosition or the like in fvwm 1.24
my netscape (3.0) doesn't do this with 2.0.43 without special treatment.
> 4. I have four separate 'pages' setup in FVWM2 and want to be able to start
> a program in a different page to the one I am using. eg I am working in page
> 1 but want to be able to start a program in page 2. At the moment I am forced
> to start the program in my current page, then make it sticky, goto the page I
> want it, unstick the window, then go back to the first page again. Is there
> a better way?
D> This is why I'm always pressing for 'StartsOnPage'! :-)
D> You can write a function to go to a desk, start up program X, wait for X to appear,
D> and then return to page N. But thats irritating. I usually just start things iconic
D> now and slide them around in the pager using the middle mouse button whenever I have
D> time to open them and sort out what goes where.
D> I'd like to use StartsOnPage and SkipMapping to just have, say, Netscape start on another
D> page (it takes ages to start on my machine) and I'll move there when I've finished typing
D> some more email for example.
already on various to-do lists.
just implement it and send patches, I'm sure chuck will include them :-)
> 5. Are OpaqueMove and OpaqueResize implemented in FVWM2 or have the command
> names merely changed?
D> Erm...I've forgotten. Read the 'man' page, its in there.
it's
OpaqueMoveSize percentage
in 2.0.43
albrecht
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Received on Fri Nov 22 1996 - 11:47:30 GMT