"Jason W. Hinson" <hinson_at_physics.purdue.edu> writes:
Well, FvwmIconMan does 2 and 3. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by 1. Do
you mean move the icons around, or what?
My homepage contains a screenshot of FvwmIconMan in action:
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bradym/software/
>
> Hello, all... I am new to fvwm (and I'm not even all that use to
> messing around with X apps), and I'm trying to set it up to organize
> different "tasks" I do on different desktops (which seems like an
> obvious use for fvwm to me). Just as a note, each of these "tasks"
> may involve one or more emacs windows, Xterms, etc being open.
>
> Anyway, in order to make it really nice for seperating the tasks, I'd
> like to be able to do at least ONE of the following, and so far I
> haven't been able to figure out how to do any:
>
> (1) Using the icon box (which seems to mean using FvwmIconBox??) I'd
> like to be able to move around the icons within the box at will,
> placing them wherever I like.
>
> (2) I'd like to have the icon's in the icon box NOT be sticky so that
> when I switch windows, the icon box in that window only shows apps
> that were activated in that window.
>
> (3) Even if all that is impossible with fvwm, I'd AT LEAST like to be
> able to tell which windows are open by looking at the icon in the icon
> box (e.g. open windows have shaded icons). Is this very simple, very
> obviously desirable ability possible with fvwm?
>
> In the end, I may have to try not using an icon box, but that's just
> might be much more annoying than not being able to do any of the above
> (assuming that I can't do any of the above). I mean, I HATE (1)
> having icon's that can be easily covered up with windows (with the
> icon box, if just one spot on the icon box is uncovered, I am just one
> click away from having access to all my icons) and (2) having icons
> disapear when the app is de-iconized--the app is still there, it
> should still have the "place" for its icon reserved, I should still
> be able to double click on an icon to get to the app (in case it's
> window is covered up, for example), etc. These are the reasons I
> really like the icon box, but I'm used to using the icon box in mwm,
> and it makes FvwmIconBox look totally second-rate, IMO.
>
> Any suggestions as to how I can do one of the things I have listed
> here?? Any suggestions at all will be appreciated. Thanks!!
>
>
> -Jay
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Received on Tue Dec 10 1996 - 15:37:00 GMT