FVWM: Ironing out final annoyances

From: Harry Putnam <reader_at_newsguy.com>
Date: 19 Dec 2000 19:30:02 -0800

Running Redhat Linux 6.2
fvwm2-2.2.4-4
fvwm2-icons-2.2.4-4
fvwm-1.24r-17

Redhat has a non-standard setup for fvwm2 that is hooked in with
AnotherLevel. That is the setup I'm running.

Running in fvwm95. I've grown so accustomed to this semi-stark
interface I don't really want lots of revamping. Its efficient and I
know where most things are if I want to tweak something.
I like running with a large virtual desk top (1600x1268)

One annoyance I have is that when apps or xterms are iconized into the
task bar across the bottom. There is no clue as to which window they
expand/deiconify in.

There is a popup window on the middle mouse (in root window) that
shows a clickable menu of all the icons, and there geometries.

Here's where it starts to get annoying: You can't tell which window
these things belong in there either. In the upper left corner It
tells which window you've clicked in. In my case either 0 or 1 but
still no way to tell where the icons will enlarge at.

My pager is confusing too. Its laid out like this:

          Desk Apps
____________________________________________________
| | || | |
| | || | |
| | || | |
|___________|___________||____________|____________|
| | || | |
| | || | |
| | || | |
|___________|___________||____________|____________|

Somewhere in the config files I've set 2 as the number of desktops
However: Each square is a whole desktop, for a total of eight. Or so
it seems. But only the two halves are listed as either 0 or 1.

But still the Middle click menu doesn't give a clue where things belong.

Do these `virtual' areas have addresses of some kind. display
location or something?

Is there some way to make apps indicate which space in the above pager
they belong in?

Or even better can a user type something in an xterm like:

     xterm -e vim FILE :display in such and such &

That is, open an xterm or app in a specific part of the virtual desk
top areas, from the command line?


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Received on Tue Dec 19 2000 - 21:30:12 GMT

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