On 24 Jun 2005 10:24:58 +0300, Andrei Popov wrote:
>
> Well maybe it's just me or my config, but I did try (yet again!) the
> "Style * NoIcon" setting in combination with, say, "*FvwmTaskBar:
> NoIconAction SendToModule FvwmAnimate animate", but it doesn't make
> FvwmAnimate work.
>
> In my experience, FvwmAnimate only works if there's an icon label or
> an icon itself on desktop, or both.
This can't be true, people use this for many years without problems.
Please open FvwmConsole and copy-paste these commands line-by-line:
Style * NoIcon
*FvwmTaskBar: NoIconAction SendToModule FvwmAnimate animate
KillModule FvwmTaskBar
FvwmTaskBar
KillModule FvwmAnimate
FvwmAnimate
Next (FvwmConsole) Iconify
Works for me, with or without gnome-panel.
I see one bug with gnome-panel, usually after choosing "Unminimize" from
its window context menu, this menu entry and window title stay the same,
i.e. gnome-panel thinks the window is still minimized when in fact it is
not. But this problem is probably not related to animation. The pager
is sometime broken in my gnome-panel too, shows the same for all pages.
> It's a mystery to me, why gnome-panel makes it work, though.
If I understand it correctly, gnome-panel uses the Icon geometry hint
mechanism to define the source/destination of the window animation.
The whole narrow button rectangle is defined as the icon geometry that
is then sent in the iconify/deiconify event and handled by FvwmAnimate.
Here, the animation only works with "Style window NoIcon".
FvwmIconMan-like modules are on the other hand use another mechanism,
they explicitelly send "animate" message to FvwmAnimate on iconify events
with the calculated geometry of the source/destination rectangle.
Here, the animation only works with "Style window NoIcon".
Finally, the normal icon animation ("Style xterm Icon xterm.xpm"), is
handled by FvwmAnimate on every iconify event, like with the gnome-panel.
This requires "Style window Icon" however.
Note that if you have several competing settings, like gnome-panel,
FvwmTaskMan and FvwmIconBox, you will get window animation several times.
Regards,
Mikhael.
