Re: FVWM: Help with FvwmButtons

From: Johan Svedberg <winkle_at_acc.umu.se>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:17:14 +0200

* Jun 25 19:51 pfemat_at_web.de <pfemat_at_web.de>:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:03:05AM +0200, Johan Svedberg wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm looking for some support on a FvwmButtons configuration. I'll try to
> > illustrate what I'm trying to accomplish with some simple ASCII-art :-):
> >
> > +--------------------------------------------------------+
> > | |
> > | |
> > | |
> > | |
> > | |
> > | |
> > | |
> > | |
> > | FvwmButtons |
> > | | |
> > | V |
> > | |
> > +--------------------------------------------------------+
> > |FvwmPager| |Xclock|
> > +--------------------------------------------------------+
> >
> > How would I setup something like the above? I want the FvwmPager and Xclock
> > swallowed and alligned to the left respective right.
>
>
> As long as you dont necesserily want to have *a* FvwmButton you can take
> two of them - one swallowing the FvwmPager and the other swallownig the
> xclock. From the FvwmButtons manpage (v2.5.7):
>
> "When invoked with the OptionalName argument [...] FvwmButtons will then
> use only the lines starting with "*OptionalName"".
>
> So if you have something like
>
> + I Module FvwmButtons PagerButtons
> + I Moduel FvwmButtons XclockButtons
>
> you can provide two different configurations one using the *PagerButtons
> and one using the *XclockButtons settings.

I don't understand how this would help me?

The part that I find difficult is to position the swallowed buttons the
way I want it. Setting the Geometry of the whole "bar" isn't that hard
(just a matter of using $[vp.width]).

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Johan Svedberg, winkle_at_acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~winkle
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