On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Marc-Jano Knopp wrote:
> Hi, all!
>
> I'm a keyboard freak and want to MOVE and RESIZE my windows using
> appropriate key bindings. Moving windows works (more or less, maybe
> I'll mail about it later), but I cannot get resizing windows using
> the keyboard to work.
>
> What I used is
>
> Key j A SCM Function ResizeWinLeftFunc $w
>
> and
>
> DestroyFunc ResizeWinLeftFunc
> AddToFunc ResizeWinLeftFunc
> + I WindowId $0 Resize $[w.width]-10 keep
>
>
> I'm not that familiar with "programming" in fvwm, but as far
> as I can see, fvwm does not evaluate "$[w.width]-10" properly,
> when I do
>
> + I WindowId $0 Echo "WIDTH: "$[w.width]-10
>
> instead, I get something like
>
> WIDTH: 503-10
You should use something like:
+ I WindowId $0 Resize `expr "(" $[w.width]-10 ")"` keep
I'm not sure it works to backquote inside a function line like that,
perhaps you must use PipeRead
>
> on stdout/stderr. I haven't found anything that seems like
> it could calculate expressions. Am I blind? The only way
> of "calculation" seems to be function specific, e.g. the
> Syntax
>
> Move w+5 50
>
>
> Who can help?
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Marc-Jano
>
> P.S.: fvwm2 is not really perfect, but so far the best window
> manager I found - using fvwm/fvwm2 since 1993 or so!
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