Re: FVWM: Good apps for FvwmButtons to swallow?

From: Rob Park <rbpark_at_ualberta.ca>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 07:05:46 -0700

Alas! Cameron Simpson spake thus:
> On 17:15 05 Jan 2003, Rob Park <rbpark_at_ualberta.ca> wrote:
> | I was just wondering what apps people have swallowed in FvwmButtons.
> | Right now I've got xbiff, xclock, and xload, but frankly: they're crap.
>
> Hey, I like xclock!

Well, my beef with xclock is that, at least with the version that comes
with X 4.2.99.3, there is no way of changing the colors of anything but
the background when it's in analog mode. That means my clock has an ugly
red hour hand, ugly teal(ish) minute hand, and ugly blue second hand.

Also, in digital mode, as far as I can tell, there's no way to enter a
line break, so it's little use in FvwmButtons.

I did find a nice xbiff replacement, though. It's called asMail
(designed for afterstep, but works anywhere). I just had to modify it's
pixmaps a bit, then it became 48x48 ;)

> | I was looking at using some WindowMaker DockApps instead, but they're
> | all 64x64, while my buttons are 48x48, so they don't fit (and I'd rather
> | not enlarge them because it puts too much whitespace around my buttons).
>
> I use wmflame and wmapm - they're 48x48...ish. They fit in my 48x48 slot.
> I agree most dockapps are too big, and annoyingly most don't resize.

Yeah. wmCalClock looked really nice, too bad it didn't scale. If I can't
find any decent apps, I might have to start programming them myself ;)

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