Re: FVWM: some questions.

From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:50:52 +0200

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:12:24AM +0200, Ian wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> after ditching the last effort to use a "Destop Environment" on my
> Linux box (XFCE, after trying KDE, after trying GNOME), I went back to
> use fvwm. It seems to be in my way less than anything else.
>
> Anyway, as I'm tweaking and configuring, there's some things that I
> would like to achieve.
>
> Is there a way to enforce a specific icon size? So that all the icons
> align nicely. Some applictions have really big icons, and some have
> really small icons (apps written for desktops that have some sort of
> taskbar). I am not using an icon box, never been able to make
> the icon box work anyway, and I'm not too interested in using one on
> top of that. I prefer my icons "on the loose".

The IconSIze style is what you want. You need at least 2.5.3 for
it.

> Icons show up at the bottom of my screen now, is there a way to make
> them line up at the top?

Look up the IconBox style in the man page.

> If I raise a window, by clicking on the titlebar or window frame, it
> takes fvwm some time to redraw the frame, titlebar and the application
> window. Actually, it takes time for the window to actually raise.
> Around a second or two on my 700+ MHz pIII with nvidia. (It's an SGI
> 230) Is this normal? Or am I doing something that makes it slow. I've
> noticed this behaviour on other machines also.

This is because you have bound an action to the title bar that has
to distinguish between a single click and a double click. Fvwm
can't launch the single click action immediately because it has to
wait if the action becomes a double click. You have

  AddToFunc Move-or-Raise "C" Raise
  + "M" Move
  + "D" Lower
  Mouse 1 T A Move-or-Raise

This waits for a moment before raising the window after a click
(150 ms by default, but set to 750 ms with the ClickTime command
in your config). Try this instead:

  AddToFunc Move-or-Raise "C" Raise
  + "M" Move
  Mouse 1 T A Move-or-Raise
  Mouse 2 T A Lower

works immediately.

By the way, I believe this line does not what you wanted it to do:

  Mouse 2 TS A Move-or-Raise

I guess you wanted

  Mouse 2 FS A Move-or-Raise
         ^^^

instead.

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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