Re: FVWM: help with disappearing icons

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:25:32 -0400

"John M. Anderies" <and428_at_asu.edu> writes:
>
> I run fvwm on two nearly-identical machines. On one, I have fvwm 2.4.9
> installed. In my .fvwm2rc file, I have the line
>
> Style "*" BorderWidth 4, HandleWidth 4, NoIcon, DecorateTransient
>
> so that I don't get icons on my desktop when I iconify windows. I also
> run FvwmIconMan as a swallowed process in FvwmButtons. When I iconify
> windows, they still appear in FvwmIconMan, even though no icons appear on
> the desktop.
>
> On my other machine I have fvwm 2.4.16 installed. Because I want my two
> machines to behave identically, I have used the same .fvwm2rc file as on
> my machine with 2.4.9, with the only difference being the module path,
> i.e. ModulePath /usr/libexec/fvwm/2.4.16 instead of ModulePath
> /usr/libexec/fvwm/2.4.9. When I iconify windows on the machine with
> 2.4.16, my iconified windows no longer show up in FvwmIconMan unless they
> are sticky. If I delete the NoIcon from the line above, then iconified
> windows DO show up in FvwmIconMan. But they also show up on the desktop
> which I don't want!
>
> Has something changed in the way configuration files should be set up from
> 2.4.9 to 2.4.16? How can I fix this problem?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.

Here are 2 entries in the NEWS that look like they might apply.

Changes in stable release 2.4.16 (30-May-2003) [top]

    * Fixed displaying iconified windows without an icon in FvwmIconMan.

Changes in stable release 2.4.15 (24-Jan-2003) [top]

    * The option ShowOnlyIcons now works as described in the
    FvwmIconMan man page. It was accidentally named ShowOnlyIconic
    before.

If you want the same behavior, why don't you install the same
release?

The ModulePath command shouldn't be used unless you have modules
of your own. Fvwm can find its own modules since the 2.1.0 release.

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Dan Espen                           E-mail: dane_at_mk.telcordia.com
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Received on Mon Jun 16 2003 - 20:30:12 BST

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