On Sun, 17 Aug 1997 11:15:55 +0200
Linux-Debian Team <cube_at_wigner.cstc.org>
wrote concerning 'FVWM: clipboard and restarting':
> I have been using fvwm2 for several months; here are some
> remarks about its performace. Could they be bugs in window
> manager or naively due to inexperience.
>
> - copying to clipboard.
> while highlighting text (that is copying window buffer to the
> clipboard) in xterm, I cannot scroll the window to go beyond
> its borders.
This is nothing to do with the window manager, but is a shortfall
of xterm. Highlight as much as you want from the current page, then
use the scrollbar to scroll down, and use the right mouse button
to click on the position you want the highlight extended to.
> - restarting fvwm2
> windows that have been set sticky, do not preserve
> their status as fvwm has been restarted during the same
> session.
This is because the sticky attribute is unknown to the X server ... it
is an artifact of fvwm2. If you want the same windows to always
be sticky you can say
Style "foo" Sticky
> while windows preserve their page-position within their
> desktop, a window that has been moved to a next desktop
> does not recover the change, after restarting fvwm2.
> At the restart, windows return to the desktop where they
> had been created from.
A window's coordinates are maintained by the X server, so
they are not forgotten when the window manager quits. Desks, however,
are not known to the server.
Ric
Richard J Lister, Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC.
Phone: 202-687 2878
Email: ric_at_giccs.georgetown.edu
Web:
http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/
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Received on Mon Aug 18 1997 - 09:59:55 BST