I have just updated a laptop from (X)ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 and this
resulted in an update of fvwm from 2.6.8 to 2.7.0
I have noticed a change of behaviour (with the same .fvwrc). I am
expecting focus following mouse movement. On 2.6.8 when I move the mouse
into a partially obscured window, it
- Are people using FVWM for its looks? (Themability)
Looks/functionallity: I want the MWM look/functionallity.
Yes, I too like a simple mwm-like look, but even more I like the complete
and easy customizability. I think there are proofs on the net of
completely different looks. AND functiona
On Fri, 2 Feb 2024, Robert Heller wrote:
Afterall, no one needs more then one computer...
I suppose there is a smiley missing after the sentence :-)
My usual way of working (post-COVID, from home) involves usually one or
two ssh sessions on two different remote work machines. Quite occasiona
On Mon, 15 May 2023, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
I'll be reading the libinput synaptics and synclient manpages.
I've done this exercise and some tests
ELAN076D: 00 04F3:3244 Mouse id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
ELAN076D: 00 04F3:3244 Touchpadid=11 [slave p
On Mon, 15 May 2023, Mandar Mitra wrote:
You mention your laptop is new, so it is likely that the touchpad
supports multitouch and other goodies.
yes, brand new. So the OS (Xubuntu 22.04)
Synaptics driver and libinput (probably the correct, "modern" option).
xinput returns among others (wh
On Sun, 14 May 2023, Thomas Adam wrote:
On Sun, 14 May 2023 at 22:12, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
So the problem is an incompatibility between xterm and fvwm syntethic
events (or a syntax problem with PointerKey ?)
No. By default generating synthetic events is considered a security
risk
On Sat, 13 May 2023, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
In particular (independently of fvwm ?) I am used to do quick copy-and-paste
of text selecting it with mouse button 1 (MB1) and pasting with mouse button
2 (MB2). Or shift-MB1 and shift-MB2 in my favourite editor (Hessling ...
Editor), due to a
On Sat, 13 May 2023, E Frank Ball wrote:
On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 11:44:36PM +0200, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
> In particular (independently of fvwm ?) I am used to do quick
> copy-and-paste of text selecting it with mouse button 1 (MB1) and pasting
> with mouse button 2 (MB2). Or shif
I am since ages a keen fvwm user (2.6.8 bundled with ubuntu), mostly on a
desktop PC, with a personal configuration described in
http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/WWW/Opinions/window.html.
In particular (independently of fvwm ?) I am used to do quick
copy-and-paste of text selecting it wit
On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, Brian A wrote:
There must be a way to specify in .fvwm/config Start Function area the
"StaysOnTop" parameter?
Or Do I have to setup a separatet Style with Layers?
AFAIK, or at least as I use it, StaysOnTop is defined in the Style of
the widget.
This is an extract of my
On Mon, 3 Jan 2022, João Oliveira wrote:
I recently update to Ubuntu 20.04 and fvwm 2.6. I am quite happy but
for a problem with FvwmIconMan: it does not update when new windows
are opened or closed.
When StartFunction is called ...
I also had to use FvwmIconMan under Ubuntu 20.04, but I wa
a text editor winodw, I just make such window sticky, go to
the browser desk, do the copy, go back and unstick.
Screenshot and .fvwrc samples in
http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/WWW/Opinions/window.html
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Hope it helps
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amely Suse 9.2, and I always used the
OS bundled binaries.
My sympathy and encouragement for your "enterprise"
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On Sat, 15 Aug 2020, Dan Espen wrote:
Lucio Chiappetti writes:
Yes, it's called Regina, and is required if one wants to use THE (The
Hessling Editor) as editor, which is a very good Unix clone of the IBM
VM/CMS XEDIT editor.
I remember XEDIT, from a shop that was using CMS for a whi
On Fri, 14 Aug 2020, Dan Espen wrote:
Yep, there is a Unix version of REXX and it's a reasonably good
scripting language.
Yes, it's called Regina, and is required if one wants to use THE (The
Hessling Editor) as editor, which is a very good Unix clone of the IBM
VM/CMS XEDIT editor.
Back w
On Wed, 20 Nov 2019, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
Well, in my case it's just another page in the same desktop. I'm not
sure whether or not that matters. But above of that it's perhaps time
to compare Fvwm and perhaps also Firefox versions.
What versions do you use on what distribution?
clear. It is the browser which goes straight to the
desktop designated, but I remain in the primary desktop ! Which I guess
is what you'd like. And what I get.
If you start a program using "nohup", this command ...
I knew about it but it's a long long time since I felt the
command line I replied in the
previous mail
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e vestigial style).
If you are concerned of the runtime messages the browser may issue while
running (is that why you redirect stderr ?), also palemoon has that
problem when started from a terminal. But I simply kill such terminal to
get rid of them !
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han the page containing my
terminal wind- ow.
I noticed a funny behaviour sporadically when starting libreoffice (with a
slow splash screen) and changing desks while it is coming up. libreoffice
may come up in the wrong desktop.
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"All that is google does not glitter
Nor al
had to go to Github). It
is a repository, or perhaps a collaborative tool for developers, but I
found no satisfactory interactivity for questions users may address to
developers.
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On Tue, 4 Jun 2019, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Grrr. I can't imagine why this would be so hard. I didn't think
what I wanted to do would be so complex. Again, I just want a
digital xclock to appear in the blank space below the xbiff thingy
in the default theme.
AFAIK there is no such thing
a .mozilla or whatever. If you start with a fresh account
and, after running an application for the first time, you see a new dot
file appearing, that will be it.
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to a
selectd desk/page (or drag and drop across pages of same desk).
Although I have extensive MoveToDesk MoveToPage menus, it ends that most
of the cases I use the stick/unstick method.
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On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Thomas Adam wrote:
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 12:42:14PM +0200, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
is <<< a perlism, or a typo for more customary << ?
In shell, <<< is a here-string.
I wasn't aware of the distinction between here-documents and here-s
NY occurrences which in your new scheme will use the
backslash like the old AddToFunc followed by lots of + I lines ?
That would be rather nice, better than the backslashes.
Thanks
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that "new fvwm" is ready by then, or even second next
if I change earlier :-)
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ly "maintenance". This
might well be the case of other s/w like e.g. Latex2Html, who have
"achieved their goals".
Long live FVWM and all the rest !
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On Fri, 24 Jun 2016, lee wrote:
Lucio Chiappetti writes:
Is there a difference between having N desktops and having N pages which
matters for practical use?
well ... a desk has a name/title, a page has not ... and one uses GoToDesk
and GotoPage ... do not think there are other practical
ons/window.html
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Do not li
favour of Pale Moon (see my
signature) which is how Firefox used to be, and more, and has a very
responsing forum and supporting community !
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For more
!
(possibly without snow)
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see http://sax.iasf-
a simpler workaround at .fvwmrc level if this
diagnosis makes sense to him ?
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On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
I am noting a funny (and sort of annoying behaviour) when using firefox
and acrobat reader in a fvmw session under suse 11.3 (newly installed).
Apparently also openoffice is showing the same behaviour.
The topmost menu bar (File Edit ...) has
usual way. I tried editres to get
the widget tree and it returns nothing.
Any idea of the reason, and a possible workaround within .fvwm2rc ?
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to look at ?
Thanks
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On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Thomas Adam wrote:
2009/9/10 Lucio Chiappetti :
... mailing list archives, but it looks like all this thread has not
been archived !
http://www.mail-archive.com/fvwm@fvwm.org/msg00877.html
Thanks for the CORRECT pointer ...
... but why the mailing list page under
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
The solution was easy and fast enough to be tested and implemented soon.
I will write a final report for the list in the next days AFTER my
videoconf.
I wrote my report in this page
http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/SW/Laser/
I will probably
y and fast enough to be tested and implemented soon.
I will write a final report for the list in the next days AFTER my
videoconf.
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On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Thomas Adam wrote:
2009/9/7 Lucio Chiappetti :
What I'd want to do is to redefine the F4 F5 F6 so that instead of
issuing a Style command to a pre-existing "Laser" window, they create
one, and use the rePointLaser function/event passing to it a differ
I made one step forward using FvwmEvent, but I'm now stuck about passing
arguments to it.
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
*** now, what am I missing ? ***
I'd like to find a way to create the icon straight where the mouse is
currently pointed (to avoid having to &qu
" NoPPosition
Style * ManualPlacementIgnoresStartsOnPage, ActivePlacementIgnoresStartsOnPage
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Is dynamic changement of icon supported by fvwm ?
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On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Thomas Adam wrote:
2009/9/4 Lucio Chiappetti :
- associate to an application (which could be a do-nothing application
e.g. an xterm with a special title never opened, always iconized)
an icon which is partially transparent (say a large red ellipse with
the
)
- bind the mouse to the icon so that it is moved centered on the mouse
- but allow mouse clicks (and keyboard actions) to be passed to the
underlying application as normal
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
My purpose is to present in a videoconf a PDF document and a set of web
videoconf a PDF document and a set of web
pages, and being able to highlight parts of it moving the mouse (like a
laser pointer in a local presentation). The typical cursors are not that
visible after all.
Thanks
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uot;wrap" my X-session in one application which
could act as an X server with a reduced screen size.
Does such wrapper exist (ideally within fvwm or at least within Suse) ?
Any hints will be much appreciated
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On Wed, 6 May 2009, Thomas Adam wrote:
2009/5/6 Lucio Chiappetti :
I have no idea whether fvwm or whatever is the lead X process in the
complex SuSe X login do execute .login.
Nothing in FVWM does -- and no shells do by default. Sort this out by
looking at what your shell is doing when it&#
e ago). It should not matter since
individual shells/ xterms should NOT execute .login (and in fact LC_CTYPE
is not set).
I have no idea whether fvwm or whatever is the lead X process in the
complex SuSe X login do execute .login.
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StringEncoding=UTF-8:xft:sans-serif:encoding=iso10646-1:size=10; followed
by some font specification, but these seem not relevant to applications
like xterm.
Can someone enlighten me ?
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Thomas Adam wrote:
2009/2/19 Lucio Chiappetti :
AddToFunc I StartFunction I Exec exec xterm
do you really mean "I StartFunction" instead of "InitFunction"? With an I?
I mean:
AddToFunc StartFunction I Foo
sorry, I was mislead since
cond copy of the clock) !
I reverted to InitFunction
(You should be using FVWM 2.5.26 anyway.)
I have an *OLD Suse* fvwm 2.5.10 (not likely to upgrade the OS until I
change the hardware too), if that matters.
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efox")
Style Gecko StartsOnPage 1 0 0, SkipMapping, NoPPosition
This seems to work for me.
(and I did not invent it myself)
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use the window menu to make it sticky, change page/desk
and make it unsticky. Or leave it sticky if I need to go to and fro many
times.
I guess the good of fvmw is that allows many different working styles to
be achieved easily and in a light way.
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On Wed, 7 May 2008, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 06May2008 09:24, Lucio Chiappetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
it is possible to configure the list per-user to send daily MIME digests
instead of individual mails ?
To drift even further, I still don't understand why people prefer
an usual, does anybody know if
it is possible to configure the list per-user to send daily MIME digests
instead of individual mails ?
I have now configured that way most of the mailman-based mailing lists to
which I subscribe, but the FVMW list is a majordomo list, isn't it ?
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was to use PDF instead of powerpoint or openoffice because
anybody will have a PDF viewer, and that will generally be some Adobe
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ht margin, but never mind.
... still waiting for an emulation trick to switch to the firefox desktop
when a click on an URL in acroread running on another desktop loads a web
document into firefox.
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was (is) a quirk of my OLD firefox, not a bug on the new
version ?
You could emulate it though if you wanted.
Yes thanks, How do I do that ? assign FPGrabFocus to Gecko or what else ?
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an addendum to my previous post
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
I added an entire line with:
Style "Adobe Reader" StartsRaised, FPGrabFocus,NoTitle
The window manager title bar correctly disappears when I start acrobat reader
in a window, but as soon as I go full
sticky.
There is nothing different in the .fvwmrc's which causes this as far as I
can tell. Both have
Style Gecko StartsOnPage 1 0 0, SkipMapping, NoPPosition
QUESTION: how can I force the automatical desktop switching ?
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On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> My configuration shows four desktops. I would like the numbers of
> desktops to be reduced to two.
> However, I would like to have only 8 (2x(4x1)).
Well, I have two desktops (Main and Secondary) and each one is 2x2.
I have this in .fvwm2rc
DeskTopName 0 M
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