Hello,
On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 06:51:55PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> 2.5.30
Hmm, this would be on Debian or Ubuntu, I presume? I recommend you compile
up 2.6.2 manually and install that in preference of what Debian ships.
> I checked again that it's not the case for me.
> The changes are applied only after killing and restarting xclock
In which case it's likely something else. Styles really *do* get applied
from first principles. Put your config somewhere and I'll take a look.
It's likely that to be causing this.
> Let's clarify one point: what I call "restarting fvwm" is using the fvwm
> command "restart", (which takes a fraction of second),
> not of course restarting the programm.
> Do we agree for that definition?
Yes.
> If yes, I dont understand why using the restart function is bad: it's
It's not a function it's a command (that's a really important distinction
when talking in terms of FVWM) and it's "bad" because:
* It reparses the entire file as though you had first started FVWM with the
exception that only the StartFunction and RestartFunctions are run.
* Because it reparses the entire file it has to also reload all the colorset
definitions again and that is wasteful the more restarts you do.
* It's wasteful in terms of FVWM modules - you force all of them to close
have to be loaded again, which wastes resources if what you're trying out
is unrelated to modules.
* State is difficult to maintain -- many people seem to like to use SetEnv
to handle this, those will likely be cleared by FVWM as well (depending on
where they appear in the file.)
And whilst all of this might happen in under a second for you, the
convenience on having FVWM not do the above and just use FvwmConsole to
effectively do the same thing for you before you plonk things in to your
main FVWM config file is going to be a lot easier.
> Anyway, I tried FvwmConsole with "read debug", with half success:
> some changes ware taken into account (Pager geometry for example),
> but not the xclock style line, even after restarting xclock.
Again, I'll need to see your config to help with this.
-- Thomas Adam
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