Re: FVWM: Fvwm newbie's questions (problems with FvwmTaskBar)

From: Olivier Chapuis <olivier.chapuis_at_free.fr>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 21:49:45 +0200

Gregory A. Shimansky wrote:
>
> >>>>> "DV" == Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_fvwm.org> writes:
>
> >> 1. It does not display any mail button when I have new mail even though I have
> >> #define MINI_ICONS 1
> >> in config.h file.
>
> DV> Please try if this still is the case with the latest beta releases.
> DV> I think there was a fix a while ago, but I'm not sure.
>
> >> 2. When I press the Start button a menu is called but it stays depressed
> >> untill I restart task bar.
>
> DV> This is fixed since the 2.3.1 beta release.
>
> Thank you, I upgraded to fvwm
> [FVWM][main]: Fvwm Version 2.3.15 compiled on Apr 14 2000 at 15:07:02
> [FVWM][main]: with support for: ReadLine RPlay Stroke XPM IMLIB Session
> beta and a lot of things started to ork as I want them to :)
>
> But... I encountered two new problems with task bar.

Hello,
I've tested your TaskBar config.

>
> 1. The mail mini icon started to appear when I get new mail but the action
> that I want it to do (switch to desk 2 where my mailer lives) does not
> work, it just makes the icon blank.
>

One click blank the icon (you see that a mail arrives and so you will see
if a new one arrives). Double click will do the action you want.

> 2. Something is wrong with task bar tips now. Instead of showing little
> yellow window with window name it shows two strange lines, somewhat like
> this:
>
> |
> ----------------------------+
> ---------------------------------------------------
> [Start] [Netsca...] [Netsca...] [Netsca...] [18:00]
> ---------------------------------------------------
> ^
> Mouse pointer
>
> The length of the bottom line seems to be the same as needed for the tip
> but no text is drawn... :(
>

I'm unable to reproduce this problem. The tip work normally on my machine
with your config. You say that you have two strange lines and that's all.
This is strange: do you have a black box that "fill" this 2 lines? May be
you can send a little screen shot to the fvwm-workers_at_fvwm.org mailing
list.

Answer to the following questions may help debugging
- What happen if you use
*FvwmTaskBarTipsBack white
*FvwmTaskBarTipsFore black
- Do you have the same problem if netscape does not run.
Say that you can make a test with only an xterm running.
Netscape use a lot of colors and can cause problems. There are
solutions to solve this but I do not know them.

Olivier

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Received on Sat Apr 15 2000 - 15:23:04 BST

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