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

From: Gregory A. Shimansky <gregory_at_mcst.ru>
Date: 17 Apr 2000 15:43:25 +0400

>>>>> "OC" == Olivier Chapuis <olivier.chapuis_at_free.fr> writes:

>> 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.

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

Thanks, it works :)

>> 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... :(
>>

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

Screenshot is in attachment.





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

I changed FvwmTaskBarTipsBack and FvwmTaskBarTipsFore as you wrote and
restarted without netscape, tips still don't work though in xcmap I see a
lot of free colors. I don't think it problem is because of lack of colors.
Tips in FvwmPager work ok, on task bar they don't :(

I encountered one more problem with new task bar:

I have *FvwmTaskBarDeskOnly in my config. If windows made stiky by style
command, they are shown on task bar on every desk. If I have a window that
is not stiky originally and make it stiky by pressing one of the buttons on
the title bar

Mouse 0 3 A Stick

and then move to the other desk, it's shown on the screen but not shown on
the task bar.

Thanks in advance.

--
Gregory.
P.S. I use
[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
on SUN sparc workstation with openwindows 3.6.1.
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Received on Mon Apr 17 2000 - 06:45:57 BST