Re: FVWM: Dynamically changing styles for icons

From: Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 01:47:47 +0300

On 21 Oct 2003 19:28:01 +0100, Andy Arbon wrote:
>
> I'd like to be able to have the background of the text for certain xterm
> icons be different colours to others, to make it easier to find them
> when minimised - in this case to make it easier to tell root terms from
> user terms.
>
> This is no problem - I can do it with a Style line. The problem is that
> if I 'su' in a normal terminal FVWM doesn't change the style for that
> xterm to the root term style.
>
> The title bars of my xterms begin with text in the form
> '(<user>_at_<hostname>)' which updates after an su, but FVWM doesn't react
> to the change.
>
> Is there any way to make FVWM change the style for a window without
> restarting it?

Yes, manually issue Recapture. Or RecaptureWindow for individual windows.

There is also an automatic solution using FvwmEvent.

Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Tue Oct 21 2003 - 17:50:20 BST

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