Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16_at_yahoo.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I have added + "I" Module FvwmEvent to the files as
> suggested, but still it does not work!!
First report what you have in your config file, it should look
something like:
AddToFunc "InitFunction"
+ "I" Module FvwmEvent
Then report any error message you are getting.
> 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 ^_^ ^_^
> >
> > --
> > Dominik Vogt, email: d.vogt_at_lifebits.de
> > LifeBits Aktiengesellschaft, Albrechtstr. 9, D-72072
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> =====
> Thomas Adam
> Linux Co-ordinator for The Purbeck School
>
> e-mail (school): n6tadam_at_users.purbeck.dorset.sch.uk
> e-mail (yahoo) : thomas_adam16_at_yahoo.com
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Received on Fri Feb 09 2001 - 07:06:23 GMT