On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 07:15:14PM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> On 30 Mar 2003 20:42:20 +0200, Klaus Umbach wrote:
> >
> > My problem today is, that I want no borders for the inactive windows to
> > save more space on my desktop.
>
> I think windows without any border look ugly, but it is up to you.
>
I don't think it's ugly, you can look at a screenshot:
http://doppelhertz.homelinux.org/screenshot.jpg
Unfortunately you cannot see my transparent, colored and animated
mousecursor (xfree4.3) :-)
> > BorderStyle inActive -- BorderWidth 0
> > or
> > BorderStyle inActive -- HandleWidth 0
> >
> > did not work.
> >
> > This time I looked in the manpage and played a bit around before asking
> > here, but with no sucess :-)
>
> There is no good way to do it currently. You can only define a border
> width for all window states (active and inactive), and the syntax here
> is, of course, using Style not BorderStyle.
>
> Here is a trick that does not work relably, but it may kind of work if
> you only have windows with different names:
>
> Style * HandleWidth 0
> FvwmAuto 0 "Style $n HandleWidth 5" "Style $n HandleWidth 0"
> #KillModule FvwmAuto
No, if there is just a workaround and if not all aplications work fine
with it, I don't want it. It's not that important to me. ;)
>
> This is a case where individual window styles would help.
>
> There is also a problem with some client window contents like xterm when
> you dynamically change border width, at least in 2.5.x.
>
> Another trick to try is to use new 2.5.6+ feature "BorderStyle Colorset"
> and to define transparent borders, this way the border width is not
> changed, but you at least may see the root background (but not overlapped
> windows).
Yes, that's how I had solved it before writing the mail. And I'll leave
it like that.
Regards
Klaus
>
> Regards,
> Mikhael.
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5) People say Linux is ugly. How does that make you feel?
Torvalds: They'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Let's see just how ugly they think it is when they have a few
bulletholes in them.
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