In message <CAJabFbhBO8Qz8=_3_udcsmi3_y0w3x+z54dyjyaxzvdsqtd...@mail.gmail.com> firefox.xprop wrote:
>This is probably because my memory is failing me (I wasn't able to >double check what resource/class firefox uses these days). > >Use FvwmIdent or xprop and figure out the correct resource/class of >firefox on your system and use that instead of 'firefox' in the Style >line. Please see attached fle which is the output from xprop. I seriously have no idead= what I am looking for in this file, but I do see several places where the name "Firefox" (capitalized) appears. My assumption was that perhaps this is the magic string I needed to be using, so I substituted that in, in place of "firefox" in the Style lines within both ~/.fvwm2rc and also ~/.fvwm/config and then I again exited X and restarted it, and I'm still getting the BIG icons. Maybe you can look at this xprop output and intuit what name, precisely, I should be using in the Style line, but I'm totally ignorant of all of this stuff so it's a complete enigma to me. >One really needs to read the docs and understand what commands are >doing in fvwm to make the most out of it. For a Style you need to >ensure you match the name/class/resource of the window. OK, two things... First, at this point my goals are -very- modest. I don't really need to "make the most" out of fvwm. I'm mostly happy with the default fuctionality -and- with the default theme. Second, to be frank, I've already been throughly intimidated by the gigantic size of the fvwm man page. I mean seriously... holy moses! It's wonderful that fvwm provides such massive flexibility and such massive configurability, but unless and until I need to write a Master's thesis on this one tool, I don't believe that I'll have time to delve seriously into even the first couple of layers of the complexity here. Don't get me wrong. I admire this tool and also every person who has worked to create it. But my needs are simple and my time, limited. If I can just get these three simple things fixed then I'll be a happy camper: (1) proper (48x48) icon size for Firefox, (2) a proper sort of an icon being used for minimized xterm windows and (3) a nice digital xclock displaying in the space below where the default theme is putting the xbiff thingy and analog xclock. I've already received a suggestion on how to do that last one... which I have yet to try, but which I am hoping will work... so now I just need some simple fixes for the other two. As I say, I greatly admire fvwm and all of this ornate configurability. It apparently gives the user that ability to configure just about everything. That's wonderful, of course. I just wish that it had an option also to select a preferred icon size. That would have simplified everything a lot, I think. Regards, rfg P.S. Many UNIX programs/utilities that support their own config files document the format of allowable entries in those files in a separate man page from the one that documents the program itself (e.g. ntp.conf and many others). This makes it a bit easier to find what one is looking for, either by looking at the man page for the program or at the man page for the configuration file. I only mention this because it seems to me that the man page for fvwm might benefit from such a separation of concerns (into two separate man pages). Just a thought. Probably worth what you paid for it. :-)
