The F? Virtual Window Manager

Kurtz · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2003 Posts: 58

I've tried to replace the window decoration in taviso's config file, but I appear to have missed a couple of settings.

This is what I want windows to look like.

But now it looks like this.

What do I have to change to get the borders to look like as they do in the first screenshot (i.e. no black borders, and no straight line next to the window-list button)?

(P.S. Thank you taviso for sharing your config file, fvwm looks and works better than any other windowmanager I have tried so far - but configuration is still a bitch!)

angel2k · n00b Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 18 Location: France

Aim · n00b Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 7

Hi there,

I'm using fvwm for some time now and this is to my sense the best WM ever made !!
I love every thing in it but I miss ONE thing : I loved the way fluxbox allows us to resize the windows, you don't have to put the cursor on the border, then resize it to your need. As soon as the key binding for the resize is pressed, if you move the mouse, the windows resizes itself immediatly according to the mouse mouvement.
I've been trying to do the same thing in Fvwm but without success. So my question is :
Is there a way to be able to resize the window without having to go to the border, if the cursor was inside the windows ?
I guess a script would do but I haven't managed to do it correctly ...
If anyone has an idea ... please ... share

TiP-X · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2003 Posts: 39

i use different binds for resizing windows, dunno if it's what you want but you can still try it:

Jeremy_Z · l33t Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 671 Location: Shanghai

Well, a quick idea :

ResizeOnPress
+ I Resize 5 5
+ I Resize

It would resize keeping the uperleft corner.

But ther should be a better way.

niebie · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2003 Posts: 56

Aim, please take a look at page 33 of this thread. Somewhere in the middle I posted my first try for such a function. It fakes this different resizing by moving the cursor to the corner of a window and then back to its original position.
As posted there it still has some flaws but I have a slightly improved version on my other machine. On the other hand it's quite a simple function so you might play with it yourself.

[Edit]I changed my original post to include the changes I made to the function.[/Edit]

blatch · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 5:45 pm Post subject:

Ikaro, I sent you a PM.
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TiP-X · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2003 Posts: 39

Hum some might be interested so i will share my fvwm config :p

http://tipx.free.fr/screenshot.jpg

http://tipx.free.fr/tipx-fvwm-config.tar.gz

Don't hesitate to give some feedbacks :p

Aonoa · Guru Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 589

I've just started playing with fvwm after seeing this thread, and I must say wow it's nice.. I love the configurability of it. Thanks taviso!

It's a world of options to explore.. let the configuring begin

MagnusBerg · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 9:03 pm Post subject:

I found some articles about FVWM in Linux Gazette.
http://www.linuxgazette.com/book/view/8438

Then I have a question.
In the man pages they say:

rrrkkkttt · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 96

I'm using desintegr's config at http://desintegr.free.fr/fvwm/ and I had one problem with the iconify feature... I have to restart everytime I log in to make it work... and how do I make the icons line up in a vertical column on left instead of a horizontal row on top?

[EDIT] how do I make the titlebar translucent like the pager or the dockbar?[/EDIT]

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ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

Hi,

today i finished a Panel I was doing.
snapshot:
http://ikaro.dk/images/Cpanel.jpg

its a panel that slides in and out and every button have various actions, nothing new, but maybe something would like to use it.

Now my root menu its almost non-existante

for example:
"Media Player" button:
left click = opens xine
middle click = opens a color control thingie
right click = mplayer

Its hiden from the desktop and holds most of the apps i use.

Ive added the code in its own file, so you only have to put:
read "cpanelrc" in your fvwm2rc and ur done.

ps: it's at ikaro.dk
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Kurtz · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2003 Posts: 58

Unne · l33t Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 616

Dunno if anyone would be interested, but I threw together this script which checks an IMAP mail server for new mail. It's a bit of a hack, but maybe it'll give someone some ideas. I use courier-imap locally, so that's what I've tested this on; using it with a remote server might be too slow to be useful, not sure. Use a monospace font unless you want it to be hideous. You probably need to fetch the Mail::IMAPClient module from CPAN, it doesn't come default with Perl.

Example screenshot here.

~/.fvwm/mail_check.pl :

Aonoa · Guru Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 589

Does anyone else experience a huge delay while restarting fvwm some times? I can't do anything until the delay is over and while it's delaying only parts of the desktop has appeared.. the mouse moves but nothing will become active. It is rather annoying, trying to figure out why. It does not always happen either.

taviso · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 8:51 am Post subject:

Aonoa · Guru Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 589

Yes, I was using FvwmAnimate.. I'll try turning it off a while and see if I notice any difference.
If not I'll also try your other suggestion. Thanks for the tips.

HIMLIMS · n00b Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 23

what i can't make up out of this topic;
will i be able to use my kde apps?
like is it possible to run both gDesklets and SuperKaramba ?
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