Re: FVWM: Menu selection when hotkey is unique to a particular item

2011-07-24 Thread Glenn Golden
Thomas Adam writes: > > > > Way cool dudeski, thanks! > > What about now with the attached patch? > Yep. Checked both settings of the option, and the behavior seems to toggle appropriately. Thanks again for your responsiveness on this. This option now allows even more mimic-compatibility with

Re: FVWM: Mysterious invocation of fvwm-menu-desktop

2011-08-22 Thread Glenn Golden
-- Thomas Adam [2011-08-22 18:20:50 +0100]: > > How are you getting on with this? > Have still been extremely busy. But honestly, also a little concerned about your response to my prior message, and because of that, somewhat lacking in enthuisiasm for the task. I'll write you a letter sometime

Re: FVWM: FAO: Thomas Adam - list attitudes and unveiling the person behind email

2011-08-31 Thread Glenn Golden
-- My 2c, as a relatively new list member. I too think highly of Thomas; he's generally quite helpful on the list, and capable of being a very nice and warm fellow. He seems to be extraordinarily dedicated to the project. But in my interactions with him on the list and off, he has also occasiona

Re: FVWM: FAO: Thomas Adam - list attitudes and unveiling the person behind email

2011-09-01 Thread Glenn Golden
-- Hi Dr. Klepp, Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp [2011-09-01 09:19:16 +0200]: > > You may like it or not: This list is professional. > Agree in general, but there have been occasional excursions. >From time to time, I've participated in (and occasionally chaired) various professional working groups wit

FVWM: Post-popup pointer positioning issue with tall menus

2013-06-29 Thread Glenn Golden
-- FVWM version: 2.6.5 Minor consistency issue regarding the behavior of relatively tall menus, when invoked via a mouse button. Example: Mouse 3 R A Menu fooMenu Mouse -20p -10p When Button 3 is clicked, if fooMenu fits vertically within the available space between the pointer and the b

Re: FVWM: Post-popup pointer positioning issue with tall menus

2013-07-04 Thread Glenn Golden
-- Dominik Vogt [2013-06-30 17:31:50 +0100]: > > That should be > > Mouse 3 R A Menu fooMenu WarpTitle > > of course. > Thanks, Dominik, that does indeed work. Honestly though, the man page sows a good deal of confusion on this topic. Permit me to grouse a bit. First, there is some syntax ambi

Re: FVWM: Forums and Wiki need new maintainers/homes

2013-09-06 Thread Glenn Golden
-- Jaimos F Skriletz [2013-09-06 13:11:35 -0600]: > On 09/06/2013 12:06 PM, Bert Geens wrote: > >Thomas Adam writes: > > > >>Hi Dan, > >> > >>On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 09:58:36PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > >>>Thomas Adam writes: > >>> > Hi all, > > Given my diminishing work on FVWM, I

Re: FVWM: fvwm frees invalid pointer

2013-09-16 Thread Glenn Golden
-- Schaaf, Jonathan P (GE Healthcare) [2013-09-16 21:28:46 +]: > > I'll keep tinkering with this in my spare time, and I'll see what I can > figure out. > Fwiw, perhaps nothing: If you have valgrind available, might want to try building fvwm with -g and then $ valgrind --leak-check=

Re: FVWM: mvwm - documentation

2014-08-23 Thread Glenn Golden
Thomas Adam [2014-08-23 23:40:17 +0100]: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 09:36:38PM +0100, Michael Treibton wrote: > > On 23 August 2014 17:30, Thomas Adam wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 04:36:47PM +0100, Michael Treibton wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> taking a look at the mvwm repository, i not

Re: FVWM: mvwm - documentation

2014-08-23 Thread Glenn Golden
Michael Treibton [2014-08-24 00:41:19 +0100]: > On 24 August 2014 00:09, Glenn Golden wrote: > > I would offer the following encouragement to Michael: Every person (without > > exception that I recall) who over the years I've badgered, browbeaten, > > encouraged, or

Re: FVWM: mvwm - documentation

2014-08-25 Thread Glenn Golden
Michael Treibton [2014-08-25 14:48:41 +0100]: > > i received an email from Glenn Golden who seems to know lots about > mdoc - maybe he can help? > I'll be glad to if I can. mdoc(7) is probably a decent place to start, if somewhat terse like most man pages. I did some fairly d

FVWM: Title toggling behavior in 2.6.5

2016-03-21 Thread Glenn Golden
When WindowStyle is toggled from Title to !Title, the upper edge of the window remains where it is and the bottom edge shifts up to make up for the space lost by removing the title bar. Is there any style option (or other trick) that would allow this convention to be reversed, i.e. so that the win

Re: FVWM: Title toggling behavior in 2.6.5

2016-03-21 Thread Glenn Golden
Thomas Adam [2016-03-21 18:41:29 +]: > > On 21 Mar 2016 17:06, "Glenn Golden" wrote: > > When WindowStyle is toggled from Title to !Title, the upper edge of the > > window remains where it is and the bottom edge shifts up to make up for > > the space lost by

Re: FVWM: Survey: Are you affected by disappearing Firefox menus?

2016-03-30 Thread Glenn Golden
Michael Großer [2016-03-30 06:12:07 +0200]: > > +---+ > | Does anybody of you is confronted during day-to-day work with | > | issues that Firefox menues disappear when you are about to| > | open a sub menu or another menu?

FVWM: Interactions between FVWM, xterm, and giant tortoises

2016-05-22 Thread Glenn Golden
What follows is a long-winded question about a puzzling (to me) interaction between fvwm, xterm, and libxcursor pointer-theming. Not suggesting this is a bug or even a problem at all, just seeking an education as to what's going on. Version info: fvwm --version: fvwm 2.6.5 compiled on Ma

FVWM: Forcing a window to remain on a specific page

2017-04-12 Thread Glenn Golden
Is it possible to force a given window to appear and remain only on a particular page? (Effectively, something like "StartsOnPage", except it would really be "StaysOnPage", i.e. the page assignment holds for all time, not just upon initial mapping.) The need for this arises as follows: I'm runnin

Re: FVWM: Forcing a window to remain on a specific page

2017-04-12 Thread Glenn Golden
Thomas Adam [2017-04-12 17:21:55 +0100]: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 09:47:54AM -0600, Glenn Golden wrote: > > Is it possible to force a given window to appear and remain only on a > > particular page? (Effectively, something like "StartsOnPage", except it > > wou

Re: FVWM: Forcing a window to remain on a specific page

2017-04-12 Thread Glenn Golden
Dominik Vogt [2017-04-12 20:56:42 +0100]: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 09:47:54AM -0600, Glenn Golden wrote: > > > > [ ... ] > > > > (NOTE, fwiw: The updated window(s) seem to maintain the same 'name' and > > 'Window ID' as the originally-map

FVWM: Forcing icon to prior position

2018-07-13 Thread Glenn Golden
"They kill, they maim, and they call information for numbers they could easily look up in the phone book." - Woody Allen, 'What's up Tiger Lily?', 1966 -- Here is a simple sounding question that probably been answered many times, but after googling and wikiing awhile, still haven't fou

Re: FVWM: Forcing icon to prior position

2018-07-13 Thread Glenn Golden
Version info: fvwm 2.6.7 compiled on Nov 30 2016 at 13:19:18 with support for: ReadLine, Stroke, XPM, SVG, Shape, XShm, SM, Bidi text, Xinerama, XRender, XCursor, XFT, NLS Glenn Golden [2018-07-13 16:45:36 -0600]: > "They kill, they maim, and they call information for numb

Re: FVWM: Forcing icon to prior position

2018-07-16 Thread Glenn Golden
Stephen Dennison [2018-07-16 12:31:28 -0400]: > > I was unable to find a copy of xv to test it, but everything else I > iconify honors the new position. Maybe xv is doing something odd? > If so, and if the cause can be identified I'll take a shot at fixing it. But probably I've not enough exper

Re: FVWM: Forcing icon to prior position

2018-07-16 Thread Glenn Golden
Michael Großer [2018-07-16 19:10:37 +0200]: > > XV is a piece of software that I reglarly use. > Yeah, xv is a true classic, even legendary. Sure hope Bradley made a little coin off it, it's really an astonishingly excellent piece of work. Simplicity, intuitive interface, attention to detail i

Re: FVWM: Forcing icon to prior position

2018-07-16 Thread Glenn Golden
Stephen Dennison [2018-07-16 14:00:40 -0400]: > > I managed to build xv, when I run it it iconifies and deiconifes and > re-iconifies back to where its icon was moved. Or more simply, it > behaves as expected. > Hmm. Can you try this specific sequence: 1. Start xv 2. Iconify it. Call

Re: FVWM: Forcing icon to prior position

2018-07-16 Thread Glenn Golden
Stephen Dennison [2018-07-16 14:19:55 -0400]: > > That's essentially the process I follow. My config contains just a > call to FvwmConsole and I accomplish each step by typing in the > command and then carrying out whatever mouse action. > > > For me, it returns to position A. > > I did it again

Re: FVWM: Forcing icon to prior position

2018-07-20 Thread Glenn Golden
Stephen Dennison [2018-07-17 09:49:39 -0400]: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 9:40 AM, Stephen Dennison wrote: > >> OK, I just tried it with an empty config too, and came across something new > >> that I'd never noticed before, which may be a clue: The problem seems to be > >> related to whether or not

FVWM: Canceling window placement via user-defined key

2018-12-29 Thread Glenn Golden
Is it possible to cancel a Move operation via a user-specified key binding? The built-in bindings to Space and Return work fine for that, but I'd like to define a key other than (or in addition to) those, if possible. >From the doc, I thought 'CancelPlacement' might be a general function for tha

Re: FVWM: Canceling window placement via user-defined key

2018-12-29 Thread Glenn Golden
Hi Elliot, Thanks for your suggestions. (Replying to list since my original post may have been confusing.) elliot s [2018-12-29 14:00:27 -0800]: > > I use Esc to kill moves in progress. > > If key bindings can work while move in progress, maybe you can hit a > key to remember old position and t

Re: FVWM: Canceling window placement via user-defined key

2018-12-30 Thread Glenn Golden
Dominik Vogt [2018-12-30 01:11:13 +0100]: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 04:29:00PM -0700, Glenn Golden wrote: > > Anyway, the idiom I'm seeking to implement is this: > > > > 1. Tap Control_R with pointer inside a window to begin 'Move' operation > >

Re: FVWM: Forcing icon to prior position

2019-01-14 Thread Glenn Golden
Stephen Dennison [2018-07-17 09:49:39 -0400]: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 9:40 AM, Stephen Dennison wrote: > >> OK, I just tried it with an empty config too, and came across something new > >> that I'd never noticed before, which may be a clue: The problem seems to be > >> related to whether or not

Re: FVWM: FvwmForums: Change of engine and help with theming

2019-06-05 Thread Glenn Golden
Lucio Chiappetti [2019-06-05 11:59:15 +0200]: > On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, Thomas Adam wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 07:46:02PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > > > Sorry, no inclination to follow a forum. Wish we'd go back to > > > exclusively email. > > > I personally don't disagree -- but you kno