hinson_at_lns61.tn.cornell.edu writes:
>
> I sent this out once before, but it was before I actually joined the
> list, so I'm tring it again...
>
OK, I guess I'd better send my reply again. Forgot to CC it to you the first
time.
Well, FvwmIconMan does 2 and 3. It'll also tell you which window has the
focus. The focus feature is mainly useful in distinguishing all of my many
xterm's from each other. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by 1. Do
you mean move the icons around, or what?
My homepage contains a screenshot of FvwmIconMan in action:
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bradym/software/
Basically, you can configure FvwmIconMan to create multiple managers, each
managing some set of windows (determined by regular expression matching), and
each having some resolution (like only show the windows which are on the
current page, current desk, or show all windows), and a bunch o' other stuff,
most of it which came about when somebody new started using it and sent me a
big old piece of mail suggesting improvements.
Also, I believe thet the FvwmTaskBar module now has the ability to only list
windows on the current page. It looks like the windows 95 taskbar. It was
written for fvwm95, but I've been told it works with fvwm. It's certainly a
personal decision about whether to use something that looks like microsoft
wrote it, but I'll admit that it looks rather sharp, even if it does take up
more screen real estate than necessary. Something to talk about with your
doctor.
>
> Hello, all... I am new to fvwm (and I'm not even all that use to
> messing around with X apps in general), and I'm trying to set it up to
> organize different "tasks" of mine on different desktops (which seems
> like an obvious use for fvwm to me). Just as a note, each of these
> "tasks" may involve one or more emacs windows, Xterms, etc being open.
>
> Anyway, in order to make it really nice for seperating the tasks, I'd
> like to be able to do at least ONE of the following, and so far I
> haven't been able to figure out how to do any:
>
> (1) Using the icon box (which seems to mean using FvwmIconBox??) I'd
> like to be able to move around the icons within the box at will,
> placing them wherever I like.
>
> (2) I'd like to have the icon's in the icon box NOT be sticky so that
> when I switch windows, the icon box in that window only shows apps
> that were activated in that window.
>
> (3) Even if all that is impossible with fvwm, I'd AT LEAST like to be
> able to tell which windows are open by looking at the icon in the icon
> box (e.g. open windows have shaded icons). Is this very simple, very
> obviously desirable ability possible with fvwm?
>
> In the end, I may have to try not using an icon box, but that just
> might be much more annoying than not being able to do any of the above
> (assuming that I can't do any of the above). I mean, I HATE (1)
> having icon's that can be easily covered up with windows (with the
> icon box, if just one spot on the icon box is uncovered, I am just one
> click away from having access to all my icons) and (2) having icons
> disapear when the app is de-iconized--the app is still there, it
> should still have the "place" for its icon reserved, I should still be
> able to double click on an icon to get to the app (in case it's window
> is covered up, for example), etc. These are the reasons I really like
> the icon box, but I'm used to using the icon box in mwm, and it makes
> FvwmIconBox look totally second-rate, IMO.
>
> Any suggestions as to how I can do any of the things I have listed
> here?? Any suggestions at all will be appreciated. Thanks!!
>
>
> -Jay
>
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Received on Wed Dec 11 1996 - 10:45:32 GMT