Re: FVWM: FvwmIconMan: Button's styles

From: Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:58:50 +0000

On 24 Jul 2002 01:05:13 +0200, Felix Kater wrote:
>
> I am making experiments with FvwmIconMan to simulate a taskbar (this is
> due to certain problems I have with FvwmTaskBar). FvwmIconMan is
> swallowed into FvwmButton and displays all TaskBar buttons in a
> horizonal row.
>
> Can I somehow change the border style of these buttons? Neither 'flat'
> nor 'up'/'down' fit the rest of my desktop theme. Can I use pixmaps
> somehow for the different states of the buttons? I wonder how this works
> since the button's widths can change.

You didn't say what is "the rest of your desktop theme", but FvwmIconMan
supports 2 more button border styles than the 3 you listed: raisededge
and sunkedge, both are quite interesting.

You may use flat borders and colorset Pixmap, but this probably will not
do what you want, since you want to provide your own borders.

Currently all FvwmIconMan *colorset options do not control the background
of a single button, but of the whole manager window. The colorset image is
resized to the initial size of FvwmIconMan (and is not changed when you
resize FvwmIconMan), if you use flat borders all buttons behave like
holes that bare parts of the whole images (one for each button class).

Or, since the vertical button size in FvwmIconMan is not changed unlike
the horizontal size, you may use TiledPixmap in the colorset to define
horizontal borders if you can live without vertical borders.

> I also don't find a way to avoid these small extra "button" drawn on top
> of the normal IconMan's buttons when a window is minimized. Is this made
> as a substitute for missing icons? Can I switch that off?

I think you can't switch them off currently. The only alternative is to
define MiniIcon for a represented window.

Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Tue Jul 30 2002 - 13:59:57 BST

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