Re: FVWM: xterm and active icons

From: Martin Maciaszek <mmaciaszek_at_gmx.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:55:23 +0200

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 10:00:14AM +0100, Pete Forman wrote:
> Martin Maciaszek writes:
> > While reading the xterm man-page I stumbled over a cool feature of
> > xterm called active icons. When minimized, the icon of xterm schows
> > a miniature view of the xterm. The man-page says further that the
> > minimized xterms can receive key strokes if the window manager
> > supports it. What settings are needed to let the minimized xterms
> > receive the key strokes? I couldn't find any hint on that.
>
> You can get the same effect by setting the font to a size of 1 pixel.
> This may be available on cntrl-Button3 as "Unreadable". If not, use
> "Selection" to set the font to nil2.

That's not quite what I wanted. There's a reason for the minimize
button :))

Cheers
Martin

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Received on Tue Mar 27 2001 - 03:03:50 BST