Re: FVWM: Windowmaker dock emulation?

From: Phil Stracchino <alaric_at_caerllewys.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 15:46:57 -0400

On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 07:16:02PM +0200, Olivier Chapuis wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 10:49:00AM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > My wife uses Windowmaker, but is frustrated at its lack of a decent
> > pager and is considering switching back to FVWM (which does so many more
> > things right). Does anyone know if it's possible to make Windowmaker
> > dock-apps work in fvwm and/or make FvwmButtons work like the Windowmaker
> > dock?
> >
>
> There are no pbs, just swallow docks-apps in a FvwmButtons:
>
> ...
> *FvwmButtons-WMakerApplets: (Frame 1, Size 64 64, \
> Swallow "wmCalClock" 'Exec exec wmCalClock -24')
> *FvwmButtons-WMakerApplets: (Frame 1, Size 64 64, \
> Swallow "wmmon" 'Exec exec wmmon')
> *FvwmButtons-WMakerApplets: (Frame 1, Size 64 64, \
> Swallow "wmjmail" 'Exec exec wmjmail')
> ...

Aha. That looks like it'll do the trick. The one thing I'm guessing it
won't let her do is codelessly add new buttons on the fly ... right?

> PS: the official address of the fvwm (users) mailing list is
> fvwm_at_fvwm.org

Noted. Thanks.

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