> Is there a way to accomplish what I want? Or even more
> basically, what is the stynactical operation for using multiple
> FvwmIconMans?
I assume you mean running FvwmIconMan once with 2 managers
(*FvwmIconMan*nummanagers 2)? If so, then you can swallow both those
managers, though there is a bit of a trick to it. First make sure you
provide a FvwmIconMan*title for each manager because I think that by
default they end up with the same thing (that may have changed in
subsequent versions -- I haven't checked). Here's the relevant (and
some I'm not quite certain are relevant) bits from my .fvwm2rc (I use
three horizontal managers and have FvwmButtons swallow them all):
*FvwmIconMan*nummanagers 3
*FvwmIconMan*resolution global
*FvwmIconMan*buttongeometry 1146x0
*FvwmIconMan*1*managergeometry 1x1+1-129
*FvwmIconMan*2*managergeometry 1x1+1-109
*FvwmIconMan*3*managergeometry 1x1+1-89
*FvwmIconMan*1*title "Emacs Icons"
*FvwmIconMan*2*title "XTerm Icons"
*FvwmIconMan*3*title "Misc Icons"
[ rest of FvwmIconMan spec deleted ]
*FvwmButtonsRows 1
*FvwmButtons(Container(Frame 0, Padding 0 0, Rows 14))
*FvwmButtons(104x2, Frame 0, Swallow(NoClose,UseOld) "Emacs Icons" \
"Module FvwmIconMan")
*FvwmButtons(104x2, Frame 0, Swallow(NoClose,UseOld) "XTerm Icons" Nop)
*FvwmButtons(104x2, Frame 0, Swallow(NoClose,UseOld) "Misc Icons" Nop)
[ rest of FvwmButtons spec deleted ]
Note the trick. For the first swallow I execute FvwmIconMan and wait
for the first manager window to pop up, then swallow it. For the
subsequent swallows, I don't execute anything (just put in the Nop as
a function place holder), but by specifying UseOld, FvwmButtons will
notice the "old" icon manager windows that were just created by the
recent execution of FvwmIconMan and happily swallow them.
hth,
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Dave Goldberg
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Email: dsg_at_mitre.org
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Received on Tue Jul 15 1997 - 07:25:58 BST