Re: FVWM: dynamically updating icons

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:16:58 -0500

jpkotta <sqrt_-1_at_ezrs.com> writes:
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:59:36 -0500, Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
> wrote:
>
> > jpkotta <Jonathan.Kotta_at_ndsu.edu> writes:
> >> I'm sure everyone has seen the configs that use a snapshot of a window
> >> as
> >> the icon. What I want is to have an icon box with icons generated as
> >> snapshots like this, but not just when the windows are iconified. I
> >> want
> >> this to work more like a taskbar, with the buttons being the snapshot
> >> icons. Unfortunately, I don't see a way to dynamically update icons in
> >> FvwmIconBox, nor a way to have windows display icons when not iconified
> >> using the built in iconbox. Does anyone have ideas on how to this?
> >
> > Look at question 7.18 in the FAQ.
> >
>
> I've already looked in the FAQ, I didn't see anything for what I want to
> do. What I want to have is something like an FvwmIconMan or a taskbar,
> but the buttons will be the window thumbnails. The buttons will be
> present whether a window is iconified or not. Some kind of process,
> periodic and/or event triggered, will continually update the thumbnails to
> what the windows currently look like. If I used the approach in the FAQ
> 7.18, I could only have icons if the windows are iconified. I've been
> playing with FvwmIconBox, but if the window changes (and the icon changes
> as well), the icon will not update in the FvwmIconBox unless I restart it.

It looks to me like FvwmIconBox responds to
WindowStyle commands. Issue them from your periodic
process. You can use FvwmCommand to talk to Fvwm.
This might be better done with the FvwmPerl interface.

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Dan Espen                           E-mail: dane_at_mk.telcordia.com
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