I think I can offer a little help...
On 19 Dec 2000, Harry Putnam wrote:
>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.
Don't know what to tell you; if you want that info, put it in the window's
name...
>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.
Ummmm... But as you said the geometry is shown in this menu. The
geometry tells you where the window will be placed when it is
de-iconified. Works for me...
>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.
Each square is called a page and each enclosing square is called a
desktop. They are functionally different. There are two things to set...
in the file fvwm2rc.defines.m4 you will find two defines.
# NUM_DESKTOPS is number of desktops -- each desktop is DESKTOP_SIZE panes
#define(`NUM_DESKTOPS',2)
# DESKTOP_SIZE is a geometry specifying horizontal vs vertical number of
# pages on a desktop
# So 3x3 gives 9 pages per desktop
# define(`DESKTOP_SIZE',2x2)
>Do these `virtual' areas have addresses of some kind. display
>location or something?
Yes. look at the man pages for more details...
>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?
Yes, there is an example of this in the man pages...
Tom
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Received on Wed Dec 20 2000 - 07:32:08 GMT