Re: FVWM: backing windows off currentpage

2008-03-19 Thread Perry Hutchison
> So how can I prevent the windows from being unmapped? If there > is no solution in X, is there a way in FVWM that I can trigger > a mapping without forcing a virtual page change? You can't, in general, even in principle. Unless your graphics card happens to have more memory than is needed to su

Re: FVWM: Alarm/calendar applications that work well in fvwm?

2008-05-05 Thread Perry Hutchison
> >> ... I want a reminder, say, seven days before and then > >> a repeating reminder until I tell the reminder program > >> I have done what it's reminding me about. > > > > iCal can do this. Mark an entry as a TODO, and it will > > keep coming back every day until checked off as done. > > POSIX,

Re: FVWM: I want to send in a question about something, and the mail registration system completely weirds me out.

2008-05-05 Thread Perry Hutchison
> I'm behind a corporate Exchange Server which seems to have > changed recently to converting everything it sees to HTML. > > How embarrassing. I'm also behind a corporate Exchange Server, which I access using fetchmail (via ssl/imap) for incoming and nail (via smtp) for outgoing. It does not cur

Re: FVWM: Alarm/calendar applications that work well in fvwm?

2008-05-05 Thread Perry Hutchison
> > BTW the FVWM list (and I think most other open-source help > > lists) prefers to keep discussions on the list, so that others > > who may have the same question, currently or when searching > > the archives in the future, can also find the answer. > > Sorry, auto-typed the "N" response to Pine'

Re: FVWM: Alarm/calendar applications that work well in fvwm?

2008-05-05 Thread Perry Hutchison
> I can't get tcl/tk(/c) ical to compile & run anymore ... [This is getting OT for FVWM, but I'm not aware of a support list for Sanjay Ghemawat's ical.] Which OS/version are you using? It works for me on Red Hat 9, RHEL4 (with a bit of tweaking), and FreeBSD 6.1. I haven't tried it on FreeBSD

Re: FVWM: Starting applications iconified.

2008-07-30 Thread Perry Hutchison
> Is there a more efficient way to associate the StartIconic > style with a single Exec command? Dunno about StartIconic, but some apps (e.g. xterm) will accept a -iconic switch on the command line to start iconified.

Re: FVWM: Dragging not recognized anymore?

2008-08-31 Thread Perry Hutchison
> Recently fvwm stoped recognizing dragging with the mouse most > of the time ... behaving as if I just clicked mouse instead of > holding the button pressed while moving it. > > Any ideas who is responsible for this and how to troubleshoot? ... > > It seems that selecting text shows same problem .

Re: FVWM: Off topic: Weather applet

2008-09-18 Thread Perry Hutchison
> http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local//GMXX0109?dayf=5&unit=m). > However, since a while I can't get the current weather only the > forecast for 5 days ... I know nothing at all about xoap, but that "dayf=5" in the URL sure looks like a request for a 5-day forecast. Maybe visit the site with a

Re: FVWM: Always place window inside desktop

2008-09-25 Thread Perry Hutchison
> > Hello, is there a way to tell FVWM to always place windows > > inside the desktop, at least when the window size is less > > than the desktop size. > > Surely you mean s/less/greater/ here? I read the inquiry as requesting that, as long as the window (including decorations) will fit entirely w

Re: FVWM: Ban area for window placement

2008-11-04 Thread Perry Hutchison
> > ... if I do a 'xwd -root |convert xwd:- png:screen.png' I get a > > 3040x1200 screen.png where the top right looks scrambled (see > > http://www.der-frank.org/tmp/sscreen.jpg [48kB]). However, xdpyinfo > > states, that I have "number of screens:1". Confusing. >

Re: FVWM: keys don't repeat

2008-12-05 Thread Perry Hutchison
> >> I'm using fvwm 2.4.20 and when I hold down a key (whether > >> in an xterm or an rxvt) it doesn't repeat. > > > > in the xterm or rxvt type: > > > > xset r on > > > > If that works, put it in your .xinitrc. > > It works, thanks! > > Where in .xinitrc should I put "xset r on"? With my .xinitrc

Re: FVWM: keys don't repeat

2008-12-05 Thread Perry Hutchison
> ... "xset r on" doesn't work before "exec /usr/bin/fvwm" > either. Nor does it work if I put in in InitFunction *or* > SessionInitFunction, e.g. > > AddToFunc InitFunction >+ I xset r on >+ I exec xsetroot -mod 1 2 -fg cornflowerblue -bg sienna > > or > > AddToFunc SessionInitFunction >

Re: FVWM: Some fvwm functions quitting after a bit

2009-08-19 Thread Perry Hutchison
> From: chris_hons...@gmx.de > On Tuesday, 18. August 2009, Thomas Adam wrote: > > There's various reports of people complaining that with recent > > Xorgs, the keyboard mapping happens to "quickly", with FVWM > > realising a keyboard layout of "US" initially, but then the > > XServer changing it f

Re: FVWM: initialmapcommand with restart

2010-03-17 Thread Perry Hutchison
> The way I understand your request, you are asking for Fvwm > to un-minimize windows on a restart. That's the impression I got, also. > Fvwm is supposed to restore windows to their previous state > and position on a restart. Doing anything else is a bug. Perhaps the OP needs to put a command i

FVWM: raising an icon via the window list

2010-04-14 Thread Perry Hutchison
Once in a while I lose track of an icon. I can find the window in the window list, but clicking it there -- with any of the 3 mouse buttons and with or without Ctrl, Alt, or Shift -- raises the window _and_ deiconifies it. Ordinarily this is what I want, but when I'm trying to track down a lost i

FVWM: colorsets not working as expected

2014-11-01 Thread Perry Hutchison
I suspect there is something about colorsets that I don't understand. I am using fvwm 2.5.30 with Ubuntu 12.04. My ~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc reads the stock Ubuntu system.fvwm2rc and then makes some adjustments. For the most part this works, but when I try to create a colorset 37 (which seems to be not o