Re: FVWM: fvwm beautiful?

From: Rob Park <rbpark_at_ualberta.ca>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:40:40 -0700

Alas! Gert Brinkmann spake thus:
> Rob Park wrote:
> >You might have liked my old fvwm config. There were no permanent UI
> >elements... (no taskbar, nothing like that. you had the whole screen to
> >maximize a window).
> >
> >Left clicking on the desktop got you a transient pager, middle clicking
> >got you a list of running programs, and right clicking got you a menu
> >for launching apps. _extremely_ minimalistic, moreso than blackbox ;)
>
> This sounds interesting. But what i dislike a little bit are the
> required clicks onto the desktop. This means that you always have to see
> a part of the root-window. Perhaps a good approach for this was, having
> 1 pixel at the borders always uncovered (you should not be allowed to
> maximize, resize or move windows about this 1 pixel area). Is this
> possible somehow? Alternatively i would use hotkeys.

Funny thing is, I told Fvwm that it could maximize to the full size of
the screen (1024x768 at the time), and I could still access the menus by
clicking along the screen edge. I guess Fvwm puts a border there, or
maybe I accidentally configured it to put the menus on the windows
borders as well as the desktop. Either way, I could still access them
when there was a maximized window present.

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Rob Park
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Received on Wed Jan 15 2003 - 18:38:01 GMT

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