Re: FVWM: Themes and other stuff

From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 20:53:00 +0200

On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 12:37:54AM -0700, Local Echo wrote:
> My question is more of asking the best way to go about it not if it's
> possible because I know it is.
>
> Well I'd like to implement some sorta simple theme setup for my
> .fvwm2rc. maybe about 2 or 3 at most so it shouldn't be too hard,
> however I want it to do more then the standard style changes. What I
> would like is for fvwm2 when started up to maybe read a file or
> something that says what the last theme I was on was and use that one,
> then I want it to modify maybe my .Xdefaults file or something I point
> it to so that Netscape and all other apps follow that same colours
> scheme which looks pretty nice I must say. Does anyone know what method
> editres uses to make changes in an app without restarting it?

There are some tough applications when you try to change their settings.
xosview for example refused to accept anything I told it. I start it
this way now:

Exec echo 'xosview*background:' CBACK | xrdb -merge; exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xosview +load +mem -net -cpu -int -swap +page -geometry 100x50+0-0 -font FONTXXXS`

Sorry for the long line, but that's the way I do it. This way I can
modify its colours and font without restarting fvwm. Of course I have
to restart xosview.

I do quite a lot of this stuff. If you want I can send you my
config files, but I must warn you, they are quite complicated.

Hope that helps

Dominik ^_^

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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Sun Mar 28 1999 - 14:53:35 BST

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