Re: FVWM: taskbar size

From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:30:50 +0200

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 07:27:44PM +0200, KONTRA Gergely wrote:
> On 0910, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> [...]
> > > +-------++----------------------------------------+-----+--------+-----+
> > > | Start || xmms | gimp | xawtv | |pager|cpu:50% |15:02|
> > > +-------++----------------------------------------+-----+--------+-----+
> [...]
> > The usual way to emulate this is to use FvwmButtons as the base
> > container, define a button for the menu and swallow FvwmIconMan
> > for the application button. Any number of additional buttons and
> > swallowed apps can be defined easily.
>
> Thanks the idea and the quick response.
>
>
> The menu is not so important, so I'll try to figure it out.
> If FvwmTaskBar can be so easily implemented by other modules (not taking
> into consideration the built-in clock in FvwmTaskBar), than why is there
> FvwmTaskbar?

It was backported from fvwm95. I think at that time FvwmTaskbar
could not be emulated well. But it is definitely a candidate for
future removal.

> If none has such a config, I will play a little with an auto-hiding
> pager. (this needs fvwm2.5, isn't it? I cannot grab the action "mouse
> pointer entered" action, right?

Right. This works only in 2.5.

Ciao

Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Thu Sep 11 2003 - 03:31:39 BST

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