Jean-Pierre Demailly <Jean-Pierre.Demailly_at_ujf-grenoble.fr> writes:
> There is a bug in the (braindead!) FvwmConfig module. The bug occurs only
> in case of depth modes 16 and more under X. Actually, FvwmConfig appears
> not to have been maintained since a long time, maybe it's the reason.
> In any case, the bug was easy to correct -- find below the corrected
> FvwmConfig.tar.gz file in attachment.
>
> I personally like quite much fvwm2 and have been using it for about 5 years.
> The only point which is missing, I believe (and which is a bit discouraging
> for beginners), is GUI-configuration on the fly of the main features: namely
> menus and buttons (less essential things such as window decorations, styles,
> themes, ... should perhaps also be GUI-configurable). It would be very nice
> to be able to manipulate the tree of popups with the mouse and then have
> a routine converting fvwm's actual configuration into a .fvwm2rc file...
>
> (Of course, fvwmconfig from John Lapeyre does this to some extent, but
> the Tcl/Tk interface probably cannot be nicely integrated as a module.
> Also, fvwmconfig somehow has "too many" features -- again in view of
> use by beginners.)
>
> Why not thinking about an extended FvwmConfig module in this direction?
> Implementing "easy" GUI-configuration of menus, buttons and styles is
> maybe not that hard...
FvwmConfig was removed from fvwm sometime during 2.3.x development.
Work on new configuration tools not requiring Tcl/Tk is underway.
> Jean-Pierre Demailly
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Received on Tue Jan 04 2000 - 09:23:53 GMT