Previously...
>The other day I saw in the xterm man page the capability for "active
>icons", where the icon for xterm becomes a minature picture of what's on
>the screen (with about one pixel per character!)
Hrmm, never heard of this.
>(This doesn't work if you set FVWM to give xterm a specific icon.)
>
>
>I have two questions:
>
>It says in the man page that some window managers will allow you to type
>into the mini-screen icons. For example, twm will let you. But FVWM
>won't let me do this. Is it possible to set it up so that I can?
>
>Also, with FVWM set up as described as above, if I iconise an xterm to an
>active icon and then deiconise it, any subsequent resize will reduce the
>window to a 1x1 character screen, which won't expand again. This doesn't
>happen if xterm has active icon disabled, and it doesn't happen in twm.
>Is this a fault, or is there an option that I have set up wrongly?
This sounds like it *must* be related to the xterm-resize bug. The
xterm-resize bug is produced like so:
start an xterm
maximize it
change the font size
unmaximize
Oops, the window's the same pixel-size as it was before, instead of
returning to the same character geometry (80x24 should return to
80x24, whatever the size of the font)... ISTR that the bug is related
to fvwm not correctly detecting when a window does its geometry in
terms of character cells, rather than pixels.
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Received on Mon Feb 15 1999 - 16:16:45 GMT