On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 09:59:32PM -0500, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> But please be more specific. There is no such FVWM setting as a number of
> desks, you have infinitive number of desks for free. Do you mean a number
> of desks shown in FvwmPager-Desker?
Well, speaking for myself, it was the number of pages per desk, as well as the
naming of the desks. I wanted to use 5 desks of size 1x1, instead of the usual
4 in 2x2 format. I wanted to edit this setting in the theme I was using, but a
cursory glance didn't turn up anything. Now, I'm sure if I really put my mind
to it, I would find it eventually. But I think the main point of fvwm-themes
is to make all these configuration things as near a no-brainer as possible.
Hence my frustration at it.
> Or you mean you want to hardcode a number of pages? Modules in some themes
> require specific number of pages (6x1) to look nice. Anyway, you may try
> to force "DesktopSize 3x2" in ~/.fvwm/themes/personal/modules-extra file.
This is part of the problem I kept encountering: I'm fairly familiar with the
basic configuration options and methods of .fvwm2rc files, but in the
fvwm-themes setting I don't really know what goes where, or where to look for a
particular .fvwm2rc option. Some things aren't too bad, like for example
setting the various well defined color sets in the "colors" component, but, for
example, DesktopSize in modules/modules-extra? I would have never guessed. As
a fvwm-themes newbie I would have rather suspected it would be somewhere in
"settings", or maybe even "startup"...
Which leads me to ask: can anyone outline the purpose/content of the canonical
components? Or perhaps this is already mentioned somewhere, or in some file?
I think as a fvwm-themes newcomer this is the most vital piece of information
I'm missing at the moment. Although some components are self-explanatory, such
as colors or fonts, others aren't: what's windowlook, and how's it differ from
globallook, and what's globalfeel?
> > That, and trying to override the menubar font in the osx theme...
>
> If you want to change this font you may edit themes/osx/menustyle file.
We're talking about the menubar that's at the top of the workspace, right?
(only present in osx theme, as a module, and not the regular menus one gets by
clicking various mouse buttons on root window)
If we're indeed talking about the same menubar, then again, it didn't occur to
me to look at "menustyle"... "fonts" seems like the most reasonable place to
look... (at least to me)
I tried all kinds of things by playing around with the "fonts" component. No
beans. I was able to change the window title font, others, but never the
menubar at top of workspace. Odd.
BTW, just in case this is news, with the osx theme, and only with that theme, I
get frequent pixmap corruption. For example this would happen: I would click
on root to get the main menu, everything is fine; the next time I bring that
menu up, the menu background pixmap is garbled with some dark vertical lines
evenly spaced; the next time it's fine again; then garbled again. It's not
always exactly alternating like this, sometimes twice in a row it would be
garbled, or twice correct. Similar occurs anywhere else that background pixmap
is used. (I'm using FVWM 2.5.5; haven't tried fvwm-themes before so I can't
say whether this is recent behaviour)
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Received on Fri Jan 17 2003 - 22:24:00 GMT