Re: FVWM: spelling of "fvwm" vs. "Fvwm" vs. "FVWM"

2007-08-10 Thread Gautam Iyer
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:08:50AM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > Should this resurface sometime again in the future, my offer is still > open. Just my 0.02c: I quite like the naming convention. Lower case binary with mixed case modules. And for some reason the issues pointed out with the documentat

Re: FVWM: Reasonable looking fonts for fvwm - recommendations please

2008-03-03 Thread Gautam Iyer
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:55:43PM +, Chris G wrote: > Excellent, thank you! My fvwm has XFT so I can play straight away! :-) I like the Bitstream Vera family very much. The only thing I don't like is that the bold versions are "too bold". Googling a little, shows that this is a freetype iss

Re: FVWM: fvwm and patches

2008-03-06 Thread Gautam Iyer
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 02:32:56PM +0100, Ingo Wardinski wrote: > since a while several patches have been existing to allow fvwm to > exhibit menutranslucency and other features. However, a part of these > features never made into fvwm. Currently, the users (which want such > features) have to app

Re: FVWM: xmodmap and fvwm's rootmenu

2008-04-07 Thread Gautam Iyer
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 08:25:26PM +0200, michel Junger wrote: > It's really impressive how fvwm is "flexible". Perhaps that's what the "f" in "fvwm" should stand for, though I somewhat prefer "F***ing-awesome Virtual Window Manager". GI -- Twenty Ways To Maintain A Healthy Level of Insanity 1

FVWM: Shape regression in 2.5.25

2008-05-05 Thread Gautam Iyer
Hi All, I just updated to fvwm-2.5.25 this morning, and I find that my oclock window gets 'messed up': oclock -transparent -geometry 75x75-0+150 -fg '#202040' -bd '#202040' & Then leave it running for a little bit (say 20 mins). After this the hands aren't visible clearly anymore! Needless t

Re: FVWM: Shape regression in 2.5.25

2008-05-06 Thread Gautam Iyer
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 03:18:25PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote: >> I just updated to fvwm-2.5.25 this morning, and I find that my oclock >> window gets 'messed up': >> >> oclock -transparent -geometry 75x75-0+150 -fg '#202040' -bd '#202040' & >> >> Then leave it running for a little bit (say 2

Re: FVWM: Is there a more up to date version (or alternative) for fvwm-menu-desktop?

2008-05-19 Thread Gautam Iyer
On Mon, 19 May 2008 18:31:31 +0100, Chris G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The fvwm-menu-desktop utility seems to have a very out of date view of >how Gnome menus work (or where they are), I think it *may* be looking >for the Gnome 1 menus. On a related note: Is it possible to get the fvwm-menu-desk

Re: FVWM: Is there a more up to date version (or alternative) for fvwm-menu-desktop?

2008-05-19 Thread Gautam Iyer
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:14:22PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: >> Is there an alternative that can give me Gnome 2 menus (specifically >> the Applications and System menus) in fvwm or has anyone modified >> fvwm-menu-desktop to work with Gnome 2? > > Having looked at the source, it's not difficult,

Re: FVWM: Is there a more up to date version (or alternative) for fvwm-menu-desktop?

2008-05-19 Thread Gautam Iyer
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:40:05PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: Is there an alternative that can give me Gnome 2 menus (specifically the Applications and System menus) in fvwm or has anyone modified fvwm-menu-desktop to work with Gnome 2? >>> >>> Having looked at the source, it's not d

Re: FVWM: Is there a more up to date version (or alternative) for fvwm-menu-desktop?

2008-05-20 Thread Gautam Iyer
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:41:05AM +0100, Chris G wrote: > If it's of any interest I've been looking for alternatives and there > is actually a Python script out there for extracting menus from > 'standard' XDG information into FVWM menus, take a look at:- > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pz215/a

Re: FVWM: Is there a more up to date version (or alternative) for fvwm-menu-desktop?

2008-05-20 Thread Gautam Iyer
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 09:35:02AM +0200, Jesús Guerrero wrote: >> I think so. I don't have GNOME / KDE on my system (just Fvwm). But the >> Gtk / KDE programs seem to put their ".desktop" files in >> /usr/share/applications. (Doing "locate .desktop" showed mainly files in >> /usr/share/applicatio

Re: FVWM: Desktops versus Pages - how to use?

2008-05-22 Thread Gautam Iyer
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 02:57:17PM +0100, Chris G wrote: > I've never quite made my mind up whether to use several Desktops or > several Pages on one desktop, what are the reasons (if any) for > choosing one or the other? I used to use pages all the time, but that causes things to *really* mess u

Re: FVWM: Desktops versus Pages - how to use?

2008-05-22 Thread Gautam Iyer
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 08:36:58PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: >> The only thing I missed was the ability to have a 3x3 grid of pages and >> move between them with vi like keys (e.g. Win+h/j/k/l). A little >> scripting with FvwmPerl makes this easy... > > Why FvwmPerl? This why Goto{Page,Desk}

Re: FVWM: Desktops versus Pages - how to use?

2008-05-22 Thread Gautam Iyer
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:15:54PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: >> (Or at least I don't know how to do this natively). > > I don't see how you can be confused. The examples in the manpage > might lead you to believe that Goto{Page,Desk} only operates linearly, > but it really is an x,y operation.

Re: FVWM: Desktops versus Pages - how to use?

2008-05-22 Thread Gautam Iyer
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 04:04:07PM -0700, Gautam Iyer wrote: >>> (Or at least I don't know how to do this natively). >> >> I don't see how you can be confused. The examples in the manpage >> might lead you to believe that Goto{Page,Desk} only operates

Re: FVWM: Using an AZERTY keyboard with fvwm

2009-06-26 Thread Gautam Iyer
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 07:21:21PM +0200, Fr??d??ric Perrin wrote: > I am using an AZERTY keyboard, and the keys above the lettres don't work > the first time I start fvwm: the action bound to them isn't executed, > and the windows that has the focus receives the keypress. If I simply > restart f

FVWM: fvwm crash when setting the mini-icon

2009-08-18 Thread Gautam Iyer
Hi All, My work has OpenSuse 11.1 systems (64-bit), and I notice that Fvwm (2.6.26 and 2.6.27) crashes when I do the following Pick WindowStyle MiniIcon vim.png (basically set any icon which is not the window's current icon, and locatable by Fvwm in the image path). This leads to an immedia

Re: FVWM: fvwm crash when setting the mini-icon

2009-08-18 Thread Gautam Iyer
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:20:59PM -0600, Jaimos F Skriletz wrote: >> My work has OpenSuse 11.1 systems (64-bit), and I notice that Fvwm >> (2.6.26 and 2.6.27) crashes when I do the following >> >> Pick WindowStyle MiniIcon vim.png >> >> (basically set any icon which is not the window's curren

Re: FVWM: fvwm crash when setting the mini-icon

2009-08-19 Thread Gautam Iyer
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:59:57PM -0600, Jaimos F Skriletz wrote: My work has OpenSuse 11.1 systems (64-bit), and I notice that Fvwm (2.6.26 and 2.6.27) crashes when I do the following Pick WindowStyle MiniIcon vim.png (basically set any icon which is not the win