Re: FVWM: label for iconified window

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_dane-2.cc.telcordia.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 09:49:37 -0500

Tony Tung <tonytung_at_csua.berkeley.edu> writes:
> On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
>
> > If I understand you correctly, this is not related to pine or xterm.
>
> That is correct.
>
> > The width of the icon title in the collapsed state is always fixed, it is
> > comparable with the width of the icon itself. When you point to the icon
> > picture or title, the title is expanded fully if needed.
>
> That is interesting. On my setup, the width of the icon title in the
> collapsed state is not fixed. It is set to the minimum width necessary to
> hold the text, and adjusted to hold new text when the mouse moves over it.
> Even when the mouse leaves, the new width is retained.
>
> Could this be an option that I have set in my .fvwm2rc?

I don't see anything in the code or man page that would do that.
That doesn't mean it isn't there, I just don't see it.

Just to check, I just did:

xterm -name 12345678901234567890 -iconic

which gave me:




I also had it change icon names while it was iconified and it kept the
narrow icon title.

Maybe you have a patched fvwm?

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Received on Sat Jan 05 2002 - 08:50:17 GMT

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