Re: FVWM: Internal window border line

From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:19:04 +0200

On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 04:03:49PM +0100, John Latham wrote:
> > From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de>
> > Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 00:22:44 +0200
>
> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 06:30:07PM +0100, John Latham wrote:
> > > Fvwm2.2.4 (and previous) placed a single pixel width black box around the
> > > internal window, just inside the border. This has disappeared by 2.4.6, and I
> > > cannot find any reference to it in the man page. It's not a big issue, but it
> > > does mean some combinations of window decorations look quite different to how
> > > they used to -- particularly if the internal window has a similar colour to
> > > the border. Could I suggest that you make it an optional BorderStyle? I
> > > imagine the box may have disappeared when the new Raised/Flat/Sunk BorderStyle
> > > flags apeared.
>
> > That hasn't changed. I can only guess that the AnotherLevel
> > default was changed. Try this:
>
> > BorderStyle -- !NoInset
>
> I can see why you suggest this, but no. Some AnotherLevelUp themes use Insets,
> and some don't. You are on the right lines, in that it's those that do NOT use
> insets that show up the difference most. However, there really was a black box
> around the inner window with and without insets in FVWM 2.2 (and 2.0 I think)
> and this has gone from 2.4 and 2.5.
>
> I have made some screen shots, and invite you to look at
>
> http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~jtl/FVWM-TEMP
>
> to see comparisons of the 2.2 and 2.5 decorations.

Ah, but that's not part of the window decoration. The black
border is part of the xterm window itself. I can't remember any
fvwm release that intentionally showed the client window border,
so it's either a 2.2.x bug or drawn by xterm into its own window.

> It's not a big deal, but I think the little black line was nice! :-)

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^

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