Re: FVWM: FvwmButton recommendations wanted

From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_planet-interkom.de>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:46:50 +0100

On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 10:38:53AM +0000, Neil Bird wrote:
>
> I've become rather attached to my setup, as one does, but with the
> problems I'm having with fvwm2 & OpenLook apps., I'm looking at replacing
> my trio of sticky corner apps, (perfmeter, clock & cm) with a 2x2
> FvwmButtons thing.
>
> +-+-+
> |p|k|
> + +-+ Perfmeter, clocK, Cm
> | |c|
> +-+-+
>
> Can anyone recommend:
>
> a) another clock that'll show the seconds hand? [maybe even let me have
> my roman numerals too]
 
xclock has a seconds hand when invoked with 'xclock -update 1'.

> b) a perfmeter that will actually be Swallowed (FvwmButtons doesn't
> complain, but doesn't swallow it, either) that can show CPU usage as well
> as xload's load.

I use xosview which has both, though not as a history graph. But
it's probably not what you are looking for since it should be at
least about 50x150 pixels (with a very small font).

> c) a way of showing the day+month (as cm's icon does) in a button that
> could launch cm. Is ther a way of docking an app.'s *icon* in FvwmButtons
> that I've missed?

asclock is a clock as well as a calendar (digital though and without
seconds). Asclock can launch an application for you, but you can bind
a mouse click to any button in FvwmButtons, even with a swallowed
window (there's something about this in the FAQ I think).

You can't have an iconified window in the button bar (except by
swallowing some kind of icon manager).

Bye

Dominik

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