>>>>> "John" == John Henders <jhenders_at_bogon.com> writes:
John> I've installed 2.0.35 and it looks good so far. Other than
John> getting it to install in a $LIB/fvwm2 directory, which I ended
John> up doing by hand, and the conversion of my old rc file to the
John> new format, I had no problems with Linux and XFree 3.12.
What problems did you have installing it? If it was the man pages not
being installed, I know about (caused) that problem.
John> I've got one problem though that I'm still stuck on, and a
John> couple of ideas for the 2.0 suggestion box.
John> First, the problem, mapping to a key that doesn't have a name. A
John> long time ago on this list, someone mentioned they'd mapped the
John> cntrl-grey insert-home-pg.up block of keys to GotoPage commands
John> for a 2x6 pager. I liked this idea, because those keys are easy
John> to reach with your thumb on the control key for fast window
John> changes. However, I remap the delete key to ^D with Xmodmap
John> keycode 107 = 0x04. Unfortunately, this seems to leave me with
John> no name to map the delete key with, and fvwem won't map to the
John> keycode number. Any suggestions?
Yeah - don't use xmodmap to change that key. Instead use the
individual apps (like XTerm) X resources to change it.
John> As far as suggestions go, two things I'd like to see in fvwm
John> would be:
John> First. a per page strategy for window placement. Currently , I
John> use SmartPlacement and RandomPlacement. This works fine with the
John> first few windows I open, which are tiled to the NW gravity
John> point. Then, if I goto a different page, the first window is
John> placed in the open NW corner, but subsequent windows are opened
John> at random, as fvwm seems to think it's exausted the tiling
John> space, even though the new page in the pager only has one window
John> open. Turning off RandomPlacement just means I have to hand
John> place every window after the first one open, which I'd like to
John> avoid. Maybe a TiledPlacement keyword would be appropriate. As
John> well, it would be nice to be able to define the space left
John> between windows when they tile. Currently, I find the windows
John> are tiled a bit tightly, and I end up adjusting them by hand.
A tiled placement option probably isn't a bad idea, but I think that a
window moving module (FvwmTile) would be cooler. You could invoke it
at any time to retile a set of windows (based on name, class, or
whatever) on the current page and you could set the parameters like
direction & spacing. I'll add it to the TO-DO list.
By the way, if anyone wants too, feel free to take a crack at anything
on the TO-DO list. As I've stated in the past, my spare time to work
on this is limited and any help is appreciated.
John> Second, an alternate drawing strategy for FvwmPager. Maybe this is a
John> bug, but I discovered I can swallow FvwmPager 0 0 and have a 6x2 pager
John> showing in FvwmButtons, but I can use Desk 0 1, Desk 0 2, etc to jump to
John> new desktops and open windows. But, they don't show up in the pager
John> window, which continues to show Desk 0 0. I think it would be quite
John> useful to exploit this, to avoid the pager window gobbling extra space
John> on my desk, by having FvwmPager be able to map the active desk into the
John> same window.
Actually, it already does this when it's iconified. The icon is the
pager for the current desk. But, I think that the non iconified
single desk pager should have an option to do this as well. Now on
the TO-DO list.
John> I see fvwm 2 now allows xlock -mode swirl to work properly,
John> which was a pleasant surprise.
And it looks real pretty too...
Chuck
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Charles K. Hines
IBM Logic Synthesis developer [BooleDozer (TM)]
and Martial Arts Instructor [Modern Arnis, Presas Style Filipino Martial Arts]
Internet e-mail: chuck_hines_at_vnet.ibm.com
IBM Internal e-mail: hines_at_loki.pok.ibm.com (preferred from workstation)
HINESC at FISHKILL (preferred from mainframe)
HINESC at FSHVMFK1 (discouraged, but I'll get it)
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"dis ting could have possabiwities if I put my twisted widdle mind to it!"
- Bugs Bunny
"I have a paper plate in my head because they were all out of the metal ones"
- Rick Overton
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Received on Wed Sep 27 1995 - 10:40:04 BST