Hi,
I have added + "I" Module FvwmEvent to the files as
suggested, but still it does not work!!
Any further ideas???
--- Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_math.uh.edu> wrote: >
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 12:46:45AM -0800, Thomas
> Adam wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > As soon as I got home from school, I booted into
> fvwm2
> > and made the following changes (kindly supplied by
> > Dominik Vogt), thus:
> >
> > *FvwmEvent icon_name Function DeiconifyXconsole
> > *FvwmEventPassID
> > AddToFunc DeiconifyXconsole
> > + "I" WindowId $0 (xconsole\*) iconify off
> >
> > Then, I put the above into the correct .m4 files
> (as
> > suggested by Thomas A Gardiner). I then rebooted
> > fvwm2, and piped a message to /dev/console. The
> > asterisk did appear by the icon (and consequently
> my
> > piped message), but alas the xconsole window did
> not
> > popup so that I could view what was being
> displayed!!
> > I then realised that I should of changed icon_name
> to
> > the icon name of "xconsole" and I did. However,
> even
> > after this reboot...xconsole would not deiconify,
> so
> > that I could see what I had piped to it.
> >
> > So, I then remembered that fvwm2 produces a error
> file
> > in my home directory (/root/.FVWM2-errors) I
> loaded
> > this and found that the following error had been
> > logged to it:
> >
> > FvwmEvent Version 2.2.2 should only be executed by
> > fvwm!
> >
> > Does this bear any relation to the problem??
>
> Yes. You have to start the FvwmEvent module from
> your fvwm config
> file. Usually you add this to your InitFunction and
> RestartFunction (or the StartFunction with 2.3.x):
>
> AddToFunc InitFunction
> + I Module FvwmEvent
> AddToFunc RestartFunction
> + I Module FvwmEvent
>
> Or if you want to do it manually for the moment, run
> FvwmConsole
> (e.g. from a menu) and type
>
> Module FvwmEvent
>
> there.
>
> > Secondly (and I forgot to mention this yesterday)
> if I
> > do get this FvwmEvent working, is there a way of
> then
> > telling xconsole to deiconify to a specific area
> on my
> > screen??
>
> This is a bug in 2.2.x. When a window starts
> iconic, it is not
> placed by the placement algorithm. When it is
> deiconified it is
> put whereever the application wanted it, which is
> usually +0+0.
> With the latest beta (2.3.28) fvwm will place the
> window even when
> started iconic, so you can use the normal methods to
> place it, for
> example by putting a geometry resource in you
> .Xdefaults file:
>
> xconsole*geometry: +123+456
>
> Bye
>
> Dominik ^_^ ^_^
>
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Thomas Adam
Linux Co-ordinator for The Purbeck School
e-mail (school): n6tadam_at_users.purbeck.dorset.sch.uk
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Received on Fri Feb 09 2001 - 06:49:48 GMT