Re: FVWM: Vertical Titlebar Hack

From: Jarl Totland <jarl_at_cptsu5.univ-mrs.fr>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:26:13 +0000 (WET)

David Kennedy says:
> Jarl said:
> > I've made a patch to give vertical titlebars to fvwm windows. ...
> Not exactly what you'd call bug free is it? :-) But its great fun and quite
> useful on smaller displays where the title bar is usually in the next page...
> very irritating.
>
> It appears to have some serious bother with shaped stuff, try just popping
> up xeyes when the title style is set to vertical. Very confused!
Hmm I actually hadn't tried it with shape extensions at all, but I see your
point after starting up xeyes :-) But when not using shapes it seems stable
enough?

> It would be a lot better (it would be superb!) if it could be implemented
> on a per window basis...I'd quite like to have some stuff (like Xterms)
> have sidebars while most have horizontal by default, or does this
> impinge on the famed 'style flags' debate as well?
Yep, this would have to wait until Chuck does the big rewrite.

> On a unrelated note, to let several users use fvwm here it would be of
> terrific
> help if FvwmButtons ran programs through my shell (with all its associated
> ENV
> variables), on X-terminals here the full path is needed, and often explicit
> setting of env vars via scripts. This is obviously not great when less
> experienced people go to customise their setups.
> Please tell me that the next release address this problem, at least I am
> fairly sure its the shell that needs added..
Mmm, I'm not really sure how FvwmButtons can handle this in any way...
it executes programs with the environment it was executed with, and this
really depends only on your setup. When fvwm Execs a program it does it by
starting a shell to do it, and the shell will read the system - and the users
- cshrc's or whatever (there is a patch out there to get fvwm to use other
shells than the default csh)... Sorry I'm to tired to expand on this now,
but it really is all in the setup, what is done before starting fvwm..

Vyrdsamt,
-Jarl

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Received on Thu Mar 21 1996 - 17:31:49 GMT

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