Re: FVWM: Re: FvwmButtons w/o fonts?

From: Charles Hines <>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 13:53:37 -0500

>>>>> "John" == John Henders <jhenders_at_bogon.com> writes:

John> Dave Goldberg writes:

>> You know some
>> people prefer to run the pager iconified so they always just see the
>> current desktop (takes up much less space that way) but get frustrated
>> because they can't swallow the iconfied pager? The solution to that
>> is to set up the IconBox to only hold the pager icon and then swallow
>> that iconbox.
>>

John> So that's how you can do it. However, this argues more for making
John> FvwmButtons be able to swallow things iconified, as swallowing the icon
John> manager to swallow the iconized pager is really a horrible kludge.

Yes, it is an evil kludge. I'm going to try and get the patch to
allow the non iconified pager to show the current active desk in there
for the next release or at least before the official release.

Chuck

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Subject: Re: FVWM: FVWM - paths and variables. 
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David Kennedy wrote:
-> Where should I set an environment variable (say XAPPLRESDIR) in order for
-> FvwmButtons to pick up on it? Can it, will it? And ditto for paths.
-> Is there any way to get around this problem? I have some apps that run
-> from an xterm command line but not (properly) from FvwmButtons due
-> to misisng environment variables.
One way is to use the "env" program, e.g.:
env XAPPLRESDIR=<something horrendous> xterm -args
See the man page on "env" for more info.
			-Robert Tarrall.-
			Unix System/Network Admin
			Laboratory for Computational Dynamics
			CU - Boulder
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