Alfred von Campe <alfred_at_hw.stratus.com> writes:
> Thanks to all about the hint for "Style IconBox". I missed that
> when I read the man page, probably because of the name (I don't
> want an icon box). However, I have two problems. First, I can't
> get it to work, and second, it doesn't really do what I want since
> I want the icons to go from right to left. I realize that there's
> nothing I can do about the second problem (other than placing the
> icons manually), so let this be an official request to add this in
> a future release (if such a request is allowed on this list).
Requests are common, but patches are often more productive.
> But I'd like to at least get the IconBox Style functionality to
> work. Here is the line I added to my .fvwm2rc file (this is cut
> and pasted, so there are no typos):
>
> Style "*" IconBox +700 +0 -0 +200
fvwm2 is not understanding "-0". This works:
Style "*" IconBox +700 +0 -1 +200
> I am defining a region in the upper right hand corner of the
> screen for my icons. I then restarted fvwm2 and iconified some
> windows, but they didn't go in the upper right hand corner of the
> screen. I tried it with both existing windows as well as newly
> created windows. By default, the icons seem to go wherever the
> mouse happens to be. If I use the iconify button on the right
> hand side of the titlebar, the icon goes where the top right
> corner of the window used to be. If I use Iconify from the menu
> on the left of the titlebar, then the icon goes approximately
> where the Iconify entry on the menu was on the screen.
If fvwm2 doesn't understand the "style iconbox" it just acts like the
iconbox is full and does what you describe.
> One thing that would be helpful is if fvwm2 would at least force
> icons to snap to a grid. This way I could move them manually to
> the top right corner of the screen and have them line up.
Usually with fvwm2, if you want more complex behavior, the standard
answer is "use a module". The built-in behaviors are typically pretty
basic. Thats not to say that there is a module that does what you
want, I don't think there is, but there probably could be...
> Sorry for such a lengthy message, and thanks for reading it if
> you got this far.
>
> Alfred
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Received on Wed May 28 1997 - 09:31:03 BST