At Wed, 6 Aug 2008 20:59:00 +0200 [** ISO-8859-1 charset **] JesúsGuerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi, > > About png's Thomas already answered. I'll just add that is also supports > svg on latest revisions. Check the man page for more info. > > On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 13:29:57 -0500 (CDT) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 2. For a laptop, there are such things as battery and temperature sensors. > > Fancy environments such as KDE have support for things like indicators for > > the battery. I wonder how hard it would be to provide this for fvwm? > > Actually, I conjecture that this would not require a deep dive into the > > code at all, but rather the hooking up of some already-existing program > > into a display "icon" something like the load indicator, which already has > > been done a long time ago. But I wonder if anyone has done this, or > > thought of it? > > I'll say a couple more of words about this. Fvwm is a window manager, and this > is no the kind of functionality that a wm should have. IF you want everything > working -almost- out of the box, use a Desktop instead. Right. The whole point of Fvwm is to be a fairly lightweight window manager. There is no need to add extrainious functionallity to it. One of the reasons *I* use Fvwm is that is is NOT like Gnome or KDE -- both of which are overloaded with extrainous functionallity. I wrote a Tcl/Tk wrapper for the ACPI battery info for my laptop -- would you like the code? I could upload it somewhere, if anyone is interested. There already exists a an APM flavor of battery monitor (xapm) out there somewhere. > > FvwmButtons is an interesting module that can swallow any application. > Temperature metters, system tray applets, mail notification applets, clocks, > etc. can be embedded simply into FvwmButtons, so, it looks a bit odd to me to > hard code such features into fvwm itself. If you want it, add it into your > config, that's how fvwm is and I doubt it will change. > > You can also use gkrellm and conky if you preffer monoliths instead of having > a lot of small applets/metters running. > > -- Robert Heller -- Get the Deepwoods Software FireFox Toolbar! Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk
