I have a few questions about the answers that have appeared in response to
this original post.
First: can someone please tell me what this XMETER is? I am
running Linux, and use xload to show my system load, and am a bit confused
as to what xmeter is.
Second: Can someone explain to me what multiple desktops (not
pages) are and how they work exactly. I too, have been awaiting the
implementation of StartsOnPage, but might find StartsOnDesk to be somewhat
helpful in the interim, if I knew what it was and how it worked.
Thanx
Todd
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On 22 Nov 1996, David S. Goldberg wrote:
>
> David Kennedy said:
> >> 2. Is there a way for a swallowed object in my buttonbar to still
> >> act as a button?
>
> Not exactly. I'm guessing that because some swallowable applications
> might want to be affected by mouse clicks, mouse clicks on swallowed
> apps are passed to the app rather than being used by FvwmButtons to
> represent a button press. Ironically, if you give FvwmButtons focus
> and press the return key while the mouse is over a swallowed app, and
> a mouse action is defined for that swallowed app, the return will work
> as expected even though a mouse click won't. However, if you put a
> title on the swallowed app button, you can mouse click on that title
> and it will act as a button press. You don't need any title text, and
> if you set the font real small, the title area doesn't look that bad.
> In fact, I think with the right amount of padding you can center the
> swallowed app, but I haven't really tried it. Here's what I did to
> get a swallowed xmeter have a blank title area that I can click on.
> When I press the button it runs an xterm with top in it.
>
> *FvwmButtons(3x1, Frame 1, Action `Exec "top" TOP`, \
> Swallow(NoClose,UseOld) XMeter "Exec XMETER", \
> Font SCHU_C_M_R_N_6, Title " ")
>
> I use M4, so you'll have to trust me that XMETER is an appropriate
> command line for the xmeter program and SCHU_C_M_R_N_6 is a really
> tiny font.
>
> >> 4. I have four separate 'pages' setup in FVWM2 and want to be able
> >> to start a program in a different page to the one I am using. eg I
> >> am working in page 1 but want to be able to start a program in page
> >> 2. At the moment I am forced to start the program in my current
> >> page, then make it sticky, goto the page I want it, unstick the
> >> window, then go back to the first page again. Is there a better
> >> way?
>
> > This is why I'm always pressing for 'StartsOnPage'! :-) You can
> > write a function to go to a desk, start up program X, wait for X to
> > appear, and then return to page N. But thats irritating. I usually
> > just start things iconic now and slide them around in the pager
> > using the middle mouse button whenever I have time to open them and
> > sort out what goes where.
>
> Yes, I want StartsOnPage too, but for now I live with specifying
> geometries that span the page. For example on my 1152x900 system I
> can start an xterm with geometry +1152+0 to start one page to the
> right. However, if you do this in your rightmost page, you've got
> problems :-) I find this is great for those apps I run at startup
> time, but for those I start up later, I have to get them where I'm at
> (except for those I put on another desktop with StartsOnDesk).
>
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