Hi,
I might be able to help out a bit...
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, A.Sulaiman wrote:
First point. The source files for the AnotherLevel package are at
/etc/X11/AnotherLevel/ and are named "fvwm2rc._____.m4". To modify them
on a person by person basis it is suggested that you copy the particular
file of interest to your home directory and prepend a ".", i.e.
".fvwm2rc.___.m4".
>Getting to the point, How do I customise my desktop such:
>
>1. I'd like to move the Pager to the top-left corner of
> the screen, resize it to make it slightly bigger and change
> it's color
>
> By the way, what is "Apps" which is next to "Desk". Can I do
> away with it? Can I also remove xload on it's left.
The file of interest is fvwm2rc.modules.m4
Look at the top of this this file and you will find that if you look
through the FvwmButtons section that it swallows the FvwmPager.
Furthermore you will find a line like this:
define(`FVWM_BUTTONS_WIDTH',eval(50 + 50 * NUM_DESKTOPS))
*FvwmButtonsGeometry FVWM_BUTTONS_WIDTH`'x50-0-BOTTOM_EDGE
which controls the geometry, i.e. location of the pager. The BOTTOM_EDGE
is set to different values depending on whethe or not you are running
FvwmTaskBar. The size is essentially controled by the hard coded number
50 in the above lines.
If you look a little further down (the next section) you will find the
configuration commands for FvwmPager where you will find this:
*FvwmPagerLabel 0 Desk
*FvwmPagerLabel 1 Apps
These are simply names; set them how you will.
>2. How do I change the icons used for xterms, rxvt, netcscape etc
> to smaller icons or to icons I create myself?
The file of interest is fvwm2rc.defstyles.m4
If you want to adhere to the m4 philosophy of being able to choose icons
or no icons then you would make the following changes...
ifdef(`NO_ICONS', `', `
Style "*xterm*" Icon xterm.xpm
Style "*shell*" Icon xterm.xpm
# You add more here...
Style "*netscape*" Icon myicon.xpm
')
I'm going to defer the solution to the last 3 to someone else out there,
as I'm not sure of the answer and would need to read the man page...
T.
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Received on Wed Feb 07 2001 - 07:05:42 GMT