On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 08:26:47AM +0000, morton_at_nortelnetworks.com wrote:
> >
> > Oops, I wanted to ask you something in the first place (I'm just curious):
> > Why is three pixels not enough? I could imagine a number of reasons:
> >
> > - very sensitive mouse acceleration/speed
>
> Yes
>
> > - large screen resolution
>
> 1800x1350
Wow, that explains everything.
> > - shaky hand
>
> I turn 40 this year :-)
>
> > - you're using a trackball and keep the hand on the ball while pressing
> > the button
>
> No.
>
> I'm kinda scratching my head over it. Has anyone spent any time
> configuring fvwm to allow single-click deiconification? I set ClickTime
> to 75 for this.
fvwm doesn't work very well with double clicks, so I try to avoid them at all.
(The problem is that I need a hight ClickTime to get the double clicks right,
but then executing functions with a double click action take too long to execute).
Unfortunately I don't see a way around that.
> I find that I often end up moving an icon rather than opening it.
> Stretching the move threshold distance like this seems to help.
>
> The other problem, of course, is that with shaped icons it's easy to
> click on a "hole" in the image. I believe it'd be expensive to put a
> transparent window around the icon boundary to avoid this.
Well, as a last resort you can override the icon with your own.
Other window managers draw a background behind each icon. We have this as
an enhancement request already, but didn't find the time to do anything.
I could imagine this:
Style * IconBackground <colour>
and
Style * IconBackground pixmap foo.xpm
as the syntax.
The first would simply create a 3d background in the given colour (with
the setting from the DefaultBackground command as the default). We'll
get request for gradient backgrounds soon if we start this, so putting
this stuff in the library should be done first.
Bye
Dominik ^_^
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phone: 07031/14-4596, fax: 07031/14-3883, dominik_vogt_at_hp.com
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Received on Fri May 14 1999 - 04:47:39 BST