On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 02:58:32AM +0200, Thomas Wright wrote:
> Hi there! I'm going crazy over this problem: please help!
>
> I need an instance of Netscape invisible to my Taskbar, running
> fullscreen (like MS Active Desktop) for a kiosk system based on
> fvwm95 and Netscape (3.0 at the moment, maybe 4.7 later). So far no
> prob, simple 'Style "Netscape" WindowListSkip'.....
>
> On the displayed webpage (which is now my Desktop) I have a link to
> open a new Netscape to Browse the Internet ('su' to a different User
> for Bookmarks, prefs etc.).... the problem is, these browser-windows
> have to be visible to the Taskbar, first thing I tried was calling
> Netscape from a script (not called Netscape), giving the script
> different styles - OK, it didn't work, thats a shame, it would have
> been so easy ....
That approach is a non-starter.
> Then I tried changing the X Resources of the Netscape Window (either
> Class, Title, Name or simply the WindowListSkip resource), but I
> fear I'm not doing it right ..... (e.g. I tried calling stuff like
> 'netscape -xrm "Netscape*WindowListSkip: No/Yes') ....
That's also doomed to failure. Fvwm pays no attention to X Resources.
> The documentation on X resources are really poor, or can one really
> only change colors and fonts???
You can change a *lot* with resources. But you can't change FVWM's
behavior with them (except in some interesting corner-cases).
> Is there any way of having taskbar-visible/invisible occurances of
> the same Prog (Netscape) at the same time on the same desktop
> (remember they are run by seperate users) ????
After fiddling with your problem quite a bit, I've determined that
your best bet is to do some stuff with the initialization builtin
function in fvwm. I imagine something like:
+ "I" Exec exec netscape
+ "I" Wait Netscape
+ "I" Style Netscape WindowListHit
will work if you throw it in your initialization function. N.B. I
don't think fvwm95 has a Wait builtin. Basically, what you're doing is
running the first netscape at fvwm's startup, waiting until it gets
styled with normal settings, and then changing the styling back to
normal.
> Another possibility is of course to use a different Window-manager,
> are there any that support what I want to do ????
Yes, fvwm2.2. fvwm95 is hopelessly neglected (it was a forked project
that is no longer maintained by anyone. fvwm2 is very much alive, very
much under development, and provides a Wait function.
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Received on Mon Sep 18 2000 - 20:30:20 BST