Re: FVWM: FvwmButtons: shade and wait for application to be launched

From: Marcus Lundblad <ml_at_update.uu.se>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 01:23:05 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Sergio Nasi wrote:

> Hi Dominik and thanks for answering.
> I can live without the double click feature, but I cannot exactly figure
> out what you mean by saying that FvwmButtons stay pressed while the
> application is waiting to load.
>
> I have a couple of FvwmButtons bars on my desktop and all the buttons
> within them are associated with application icons (background is transparent
> so that icons appear to be lined up directly on desktop): for example I
> have xterm, gvim, konqueror, opera (and so forth) pixmaps grouped within a
> vertical FvwmButtons bar I use to launch the corresponding applications.
>
> I cannot see any change in those icons when I start each application.
>
>
> Does the FvwmButtons feature you were referring to apply to buttons with
> application icons?
>
> Do I need to provide a "pressed down" version of those icons?

It's the relief of the button (ie. the border around it) that appears
pressed down.
So if you have a transparent FvwmButtons bar, it wont look pressed in as
far as I know. I couldn't find a way to specify more than one icon for a
button.

>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Sergio
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 12:16:56PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 11:18:11AM +0200, Sergio Nasi wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > I'd like to configure a vertical side instance of FvwmButtons on my
> > > desktop as an application launcher: but I'd like furthermore to have the
> > > launching icons working as follows:
> > >
> > > 1) Double click (and not only single click) to run the application
> >
> > FvwmBUttons doesn't know about double clicks. I can't think of a
> > good way for this. Sorry.
> >
> > > 2) Icons become shaded after clicking to wait for the application to pop up
> > > 3) When application pops up, reset icon to its pristine state
> >
> > FvwmButtons already has a similar functionality. The button is
> > drawn pressed in instead of shaded, though. It works like this:
> >
> > *FvwmButtons: (Action Exec "xload" xload)
> >
> > The button stays pressed in until a window with the name xload
> > appears (the string in double quotes). The rest of the line is
> > the command that is executed.
> >
> > Bye
> >
> > Dominik ^_^ ^_^
> >
> > --
> > Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
> > Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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