On 15 Oct 1997, Manfred Bartz wrote:
> Greg Fall <gmf_at_dweezil.dyn.ml.org> writes:
>
> > Okay, a couple of issues. I just upgraded from 2.0.45 to 2.0.46, and I
> > was surprised (1) to find you have to add ".2" to the module names when
> > you try for the man pages (that's intuitive), ...
>
> Hmm? not on my system....
>
> In ``Fvwm.tmpl'' (used by xmkmf) there are these lines:
Installed the RPM from Red Hat contrib, so none of that was involved here.
I guess this is an issue with the package builder, who is as far as I can
tell unidentified.
> /* Where do you want the fvwm man pages installed. */
> #define FvwmManPath /usr/X11R6/man
> #define FvwmManSuffix 1
> which give you control over where you want the man pages.
>
> > ... and (2) that FvwmConfig is
> > not there by default. Not a huge deal, but it is kind of useful if you
>
> Don't know, but if you want it, it's in ``fvwm-2.0.46/extras/FvwmConfig''.
> cd extras/FvwmConfig
> make
> su
> make install
Again, I know it is included optionally, but once again, it is not
included with the RPM.
> > So now my question. I would like to have my FvwmButtons centered on the
> > screen. I can do it by brute force: get the geometry from FvwmIdent,
> > then put it in *FvwmButtonsGeometry... But wouldn't it be nice if I could
> > just say "center FvwmButtons along the bottom edge of the screen" and
> > forget about it?
>
> The centering can be achieved with m4 pre-processing (m4_eval), but I
> think you still need to know the width of the button bar.
I don't see how M4 can do any better for you than just hard-coding
*FvwmButtonsGeometry in there. Sure, you can make some kind of
BUTTONBARWIDTH macro, but that really makes it no easier. Anyway, thanks
for your comments.
G.F.
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Received on Wed Oct 15 1997 - 09:16:30 BST