And Adrian Burd spake, saying:
>
> Problem 1: I explained this in a previous message - basically I seem
> to be unable to decorate the titlebar buttons. I can colour them, but
> I cannot place triangles, X's, pixmaps or anything else in them. They
> all work as per the definitions in the .fvwm2rc file, but they look a
> bit boring! I've tried using several sample fvwm2rc files, but without
> any joy. Am I missing a piece of software? I have XPM installed and it
> finds the suitable icons for the FvwmButtons. I have run out of ideas
> on this one.
>
I glanced over the ButtonStyle definitions you included in your previous
mail and see nothing wrong with them. I'll take the approach of an
earlier poster and show you what works for me:
ButtonStyle Reset
ButtonStyle 1 Vector 5 20x70_at_0 20x60_at_1 80x60_at_1 80x70_at_0 20x70_at_0
ButtonStyle 4 Default 6
ButtonStyle 5 Vector 4 20x30_at_0 80x30_at_1 50x80_at_0 20x30_at_1
ButtonStyle 6 Vector 9 20x40_at_0 20x30_at_1 80x30_at_1 80x40_at_0 52x40_at_0 52x65_at_0 \
48x65_at_0 48x40_at_1 20x40_at_0
These obviously won't be the button styles that you want, but you
might be able to use them as a starting point.
> Problem2: When I launch Emacs from the command line (as I used to do
> when using the DEC CDE), everything works fine. If I launch Emacs
> using FvwmButtons, then mostly everything works, except that for some
> reason in this case Emacs can no longer find ispell! This is confusing
> since ispell is placed along with all the other emacs code (such as
> bbdb) and that is found without a problem. Does Fvwm do something
> weird with paths? BTW, I am using Emacs 19.27.
>
Fvwm inherits the environment (including paths) of whatever process
invokes it. If you do a console login followed by 'startx' (or your
local equivalent), fvwm gets the same PATH info as your login shell.
If you use xdm, on the other hand, control gets passed to fvwm via
your .xsession file, so you'll want to set up your path info for fvwm
there.
Hope this was of some help to you. Good luck!
--
Wesley Hart
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Received on Wed Jan 07 1998 - 10:31:13 GMT