Re: FVWM: several questions about FVWM

From: Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 10:59:29 +0000 (GMT)

 --- Xue Ruini <xrn03_at_mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> wrote:
> I am a newbie to FVWM, so please forgive me if I am asking navie topics.

That's OK. We're here to help.

> I am using the .fvwm2rc from Tavis, and modified it to fit my box. But
> some questions come out:
>
> 1. The transparent effect working fine with all applications excepte for
> gvim. Whenever I resize or minmize and then maxmize the gvim, it
> becomes
> blank, and I have to force "killall -9 givm" to close it.

I *think* this was a known issue with the vim developers. I suggest asking
on their mailing-list to see. Although I know of people using gvim just
fine with transparency. Odd. If you launch gvim from an xterm, is anything
printed to it, such as errors?

> 2. In my Debian box with the default xfce, OpenOffice works fine.
> However,
> after my moving to FVWM, the characters in the menu are TOO SMALL.
> The
> other applications seem fine.

This could be the default font size for all your gtk apps.

> 3. Tavis put some FvwmButtons on the right edge, but I found it
> sometimes
> took up too much space. I want to make it dynamic as in a drawer,
> which
> can be opened and closed on demand. (search TODO in this mail)

This is available in FvwmButtons by using the "Panel" option to
FvwmButtons. There's a really good explanation of this in the man page for
FvwmButtons, under the section "CREATING PANELS".

-- Thomas Adam

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