Re: FVWM: FvwmAnimate

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:39:38 -0400

"Thomas A. Gardiner" <gardiner_at_pas.rochester.edu> writes:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if you might have a suggestion for me. I decided to try out
> FvwmAnimate to put a little spark on the screen, and as usual ran into a
> problem - nothing happens. I'm a little confused as I have tried both
> setting the options directly as well as saving the options to the file
> ~/.FvwmAnimate. I wonder, is it possible that there is some other option
> set which is nulling out the effects? Or, am I just doing something
> stupid again.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
> Ps. I tried the following to slow things down enough to see 'em, to no
> avail.
>
> *FvwmAnimateDelay 1000
> *FvwmAnimateIterations 100
> *FvwmAnimateTwist 2
> *FvwmAnimateWidth 4
> *FvwmAnimateEffect Turn
> *FvwmAnimateSave
>
> The save, while it should be overkill, was a last ditch effort to see if
> things were being set properly...

First make sure you have FvwmAnimate running:

ps -ef | grep FvwmAnimate

should give you a result like this:

xxxx> ps -ef | grep FvwmAnimate
    dane 11613 2075 0 09:33:13 ttyp0 0:00 grep FvwmAnimate
    dane 26666 26660 0 Jul 08 console 0:00 /usr/local/fvwm/2.3.6//FvwmAnimate 9 4 none 0 8

Also note that FvwmAnimate currently only animates desktop icons.
If you are using FvwmTaskbar, FvwmIconMan, or FvwmIconBox and have
"Style * NoIcon" set, you won't see any animation.

I can't predict what putting the "Save" command in the file is going to
do. (I've never tested it that way.)

> _________________________________________________________________________
> Thomas Gardiner

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Received on Wed Jul 14 1999 - 08:41:30 BST

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