On 02 Mar 2003 14:05:59 +0100, Gert Brinkmann wrote:
>
> Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
> >
> > I found something, which does exactly what I want and is real good:
> > osd_cat from XOSD!
>
> This really looks good. But how do you call it from fvwm? The problem is
> that in fvwm the pages and desktops AFAIK do not have a name, they are
> just labeled in the FvwmPager module.
The desktops do have names in 2.5.x using DesktopName command and it is
advised to use this instead of the FvwmPager's Label (i.e. remove all
"*FvwmPager: Label" lines in 2.5.x as redundant). Some modules including
FvwmPager and WindowList support these global names automatically.
The pages have no names, but they have coordinates.
> One (the only?) possible solution might be to call a small script with
> the desktop and page numbers and the script chooses the name to be printed.
Just installed
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/freshrpms/psyche/xosd/xosd-2.1.2-fr1.i386.rpm
Looks ok, here is how to use it in 2.5.6 (use $d in older 2.5.x versions):
DesktopName 0 Main
DesktopName 1 FVWM
DesktopName 2 Work
DesktopName 3 Fun
DestroyFunc ShowString
AddToFunc ShowString
+ I Exec echo '$*' | osd_cat -A center -p middle -f '*lucida*-20-*' -s 5 -d 1
DestroyFunc ExpandAndShowString
AddToFunc ExpandAndShowString
+ I PipeRead `echo ShowString '$*'`
DestroyModuleConfig FvwmEvent-Flash: *
*FvwmEvent-Flash: Delay 1
*FvwmEvent-Flash: Cmd ExpandAndShowString
*FvwmEvent-Flash: new_desk $$$$[desk.name$$[desk.n]]
*FvwmEvent-Flash: new_page "Page: $$[page.nx] $$[page.ny]"
AddToFunc StartFunction
+ I FvwmEvent FvwmEvent-Flash
#KillModule FvwmEvent FvwmEvent-Flash
Preventing future questions. There is a problem in osd_cat, it may show a
text for less than one second. Also for better results try to disable
either "Delay 1" line or "new_page" line, since the order of the sent
events are not very good, we just need to have one new_page_or_desk event.
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Sun Mar 02 2003 - 15:26:21 GMT