> would you be able/willing to share the relevent section of your config file > to show how you did it?
Here's what i have for my replacement taskbar. I'm actually doing something else in the spot of xbiff, so i dont know if it's right. *FvwmIconMan: Action Mouse 1 N sendcommand Op_Raise_Iconify_Off *FvwmIconMan: ButtonGeometry 642x25 *FvwmIconMan: Colorset 5 *FvwmIconMan: DrawIcons always *FvwmIconMan: FocusColorset 4 *FvwmIconMan: IconColorset 6 *FvwmIconMan: Format "%i" *FvwmIconMan: ManagerGeometry 1x2 *FvwmIconMan: ReliefThickness 1 *FvwmButtons: Colorset 5 *FvwmButtons: Frame 0 *FvwmButtons: Geometry 642x50+154-0 *FvwmButtons: Padding 0 0 *FvwmButtons: (1x1, Swallow "xbiff" 'Exec xbiff' Action(Mouse 1) 'Exec from | xmessage -file -' ) *FvwmButtons: (1x1, Swallow "xclock" 'Exec xclock -digital -strftime %d -face lucidasans-8') *FvwmButtons: (15x2-0-0, right, Swallow FvwmIconMan "Module FvwmIconMan")