Re: FVWM: FvwmPager position/geometry question

From: Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 15:34:34 +0000

On 24 Dec 2002 23:38:08 +0100, Johan Svedberg wrote:
>
> I'm trying to set the position/geometry of the FvwmPager based on the
> screens height/width. I think I need PipeRead for this but I'm afraid my
> skills are not enough. :-)
>
> I would like it too look something like this (appologies for my terrible
> ascii skills :)):
>
> X
> |--------------------------------------------|
> | |
> | |
> | |
> | |
> | |
> Y | |
> | |
> | B |
> |--------------------------------------------|
> A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
> |--------------------------------------------|
>
>
> What I want is that there should always be 10 pages at he bottom of the
> screen, so the width (B) of the pages would be X/10.
>
> The height (A) of the pages should always be one tenth of the screens
> height (Y/10).
>
> Could someone help me out with the commands to get this setup?

FvwmPager can't have just any arbitrary width or height.
In your case the width will always be 9 + 10 * N, for example 79 pixels,
because there are 9 separators.

Keeping this in mind, add this line to your config:

  *FvwmPager: DesktopScale 10

This makes a pager to be 9 pixels (or less) wider than needed. Not good.
I may suggest this instead:

  *FvwmPager: Geometry $[vp.width]x99

And of course:

  DesktopSize 10x1
  Style FvwmPager NoHandles, BorderWidth 0 # or non zero to fill the gap

If you need to do some calculations, I would suggest to use FvwmPerl for
this in 2.5.x, or do something like this (3 is for BorderWidth 3):

  PipeRead 'echo *FvwmPager: Geometry `expr $[vp.width] - 3 * 2`x99'

You may need to escape some chars in some cases, like `\\( 3 \\* 2 \\)`.

Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Wed Dec 25 2002 - 09:36:20 GMT

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