Re: FVWM: some questions.

From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:45:51 +0200

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:37:50AM +0200, Ian wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:50:52AM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:12:24AM +0200, Ian wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > after ditching the last effort to use a "Destop Environment" on my
> > > Linux box (XFCE, after trying KDE, after trying GNOME), I went back to
> > > use fvwm. It seems to be in my way less than anything else.
> > >
> > > Anyway, as I'm tweaking and configuring, there's some things that I
> > > would like to achieve.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to enforce a specific icon size? So that all the icons
> > > align nicely. Some applictions have really big icons, and some have
> > > really small icons (apps written for desktops that have some sort of
> > > taskbar). I am not using an icon box, never been able to make
> > > the icon box work anyway, and I'm not too interested in using one on
> > > top of that. I prefer my icons "on the loose".
> >
> > The IconSIze style is what you want. You need at least 2.5.3 for
> > it.
>
> Ah, ok... I'll wait a little till it' stable then :)
>
>
> > > Icons show up at the bottom of my screen now, is there a way to make
> > > them line up at the top?
> >
> > Look up the IconBox style in the man page.
>
> Hmm... can't seem to sort it, I put
>
> Style "*" IconBox 0 1024 -280 -1
                                ^^^^^^^^^

I guess you confused the order of the arguments. Should probably
be "-280 1024".

> in my fvwm2rc, but icons still end up lower left corner. It's not a
> biggy though.

Oops. You need to specify the IconFill style too on the same
line:

  Style * IconBox 0 -280 1024 -1, IconFill left top

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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