Re: FVWM: questions about borderwidth, mouse and key defs, launcher

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 15:31:59 -0500

Joel Smith <joel_at_earthlink.net> writes:
>
> BorderWidth Q:
>
> I'm trying to make my FvwmButtons completely transparent. I've
> followed the directions to use Colorset and that works, but a problem
> remains. I set the borderwidth of the buttons to zero, i.e.
>
> Style "FvwmButtons" BorderWidth 0, CirculateSkip, StaysOnTop

Style "FvwmButtons" BorderWidth 0, CirculateSkip, StaysOnTop, HandleWidth 0

You don't need the BorderWidth 0, but it doesn't hurt.

> Mouse and Key defs:
>
> I don't understand these at all and I can't find any documentation.
> For instance, what does the following mean,
>
> Silent Mouse 6 FSTW N RaiseAndFocus
> Mouse 3 R N Menu MP3PlaylistMenu
>
> Just want documentation...

Man page.

Search for Silent.

Searching for Mouse is harder, instead search for:

COMMANDS FOR MOUSE, KEY AND STROKE BINDINGS

The things at the end are functions.

> Launcher Q:
>
> Following the advice of the FAQ's I tried to use the following code
>
> # FvwmButtons icon launcher:
> DestroyFunc Launcher
> AddToFunc Launcher
> + I DestroyModuleConfig $0Launch: *
> + I *$0Launch: Geometry 64x68
> + I *$0Launch: Columns 1
> + I *$0Launch: Rows 4
> + I *$0Launch: Frame 0
> + I *$0Launch: (1x3+0+0, Icon $1, Action (Mouse 1) `Exec $2`)
> + I *$0Launch: Pixmap none
> + I *$0Launch: (1x1+0+3, Font 9x15, Fore White, Back DarkBlue, \
> Title $0, Action (Mouse 1) `Exec $2`)
> + I Style $0Launch HandleWidth 0, NoTitle
> + I Module FvwmButtons $3 $0Launch
> # Examples:
> Launcher RXVT xterm.xpm "rxvt -bg black" "-g +0+0"
> Launcher XV xv.xpm "xv" "-g +0+100"
>
> it works great but i puts this awful nontransparent box at the
> bottom. I'd prefer to either eliminate the text box altogether or set
> its color to transparent just like i did for FvwmButtons. Is there a
> way to do that?

That's the IconTitle.
Try Style $0Launch NoIconTitle

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