Re: fvwm on Debian 12: Modules do not start. How to debug ?

2024-07-23 Thread songbird
Max Nikulin wrote: > On 23/07/2024 04:09, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >>$ cat ~/.xsession-errors > [...] >>[fvwm][executeModule]: <> No such module 'FvwmConsole' in >> ModulePath '/usr/lib/fvwm/2.6.8' > > A bit off-topic question. In what wiki page you would expect to find > suggestions to insp

Re: fvwm on Debian 12: Modules do not start. How to debug ?

2024-07-23 Thread Max Nikulin
On 23/07/2024 04:09, Thomas Schmitt wrote: $ cat ~/.xsession-errors [...] [fvwm][executeModule]: <> No such module 'FvwmConsole' in ModulePath '/usr/lib/fvwm/2.6.8' A bit off-topic question. In what wiki page you would expect to find suggestions to inspect ~/.xsession-errors file and

[Solved] Re: fvwm on Debian 12: Modules do not start. How to debug ?

2024-07-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > Four of five fingers point to me and my ~/.fvwm2rc": > > ModulePath /usr/lib/fvwm/2.6.8 Greg Wooledge wrote: > Why do you even have that line at all? Cargo cult. Once it was needed, then i carried it on, and finally i forgot about it. The reason why i did not notice two years

Re: fvwm on Debian 12: Modules do not start. How to debug ?

2024-07-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 23:09:59 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Four of five fingers point to me and my ~/.fvwm2rc": > > ModulePath /usr/lib/fvwm/2.6.8 > > I see traces that i adjusted this multiple times over the years: > /usr/lib/X11/fvwm2 , /usr/lib/fvwm/2.6.5 , /usr/lib/fvwm/2.6.8. > > So

Re: fvwm on Debian 12: Modules do not start. How to debug ?

2024-07-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, (i begin to owe Greg Wooledge half a sysadmin salary and half one for a geriatric nurse) Greg Wooledge wrote: > Error messages, if there are any, should be in ~/.xsession-errors $ cat ~/.xsession-errors Cannot parse color "dtcolor5" couldn't create gradient Cannot parse color "dtcolo

Re: fvwm on Debian 12: Modules do not start. How to debug ?

2024-07-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 21:37:05 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > So how could i debug the start of fvwm Modules ? > Is there any log file or configuration option ? Error messages, if there are any, should be in ~/.xsession-errors for most users. I'd start there.

Re: FVWM title bar information......

2021-02-06 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 08:00:03 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 09:46:15AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > I think this is called "shading" [...] > > > > Glad it helped. Actually, I was unsure myself, because, although > > I do use fvwm, I somehow managed to make shadin

Re: FVWM title bar information......

2021-02-05 Thread tomas
On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 08:00:03AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > It has to be enabled in your configuration. The default config for > the current version of fvwm has it, but if you're using a config > that you created for an older version (like I am), you may not even know > it's a possibi

Re: FVWM title bar information......

2021-02-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 09:46:15AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > I think this is called "shading" [...] > > Glad it helped. Actually, I was unsure myself, because, although > I do use fvwm, I somehow managed to make shading inaccessible to > me (I don't use it). Not having the time to resea

Re: FVWM title bar information......

2021-02-05 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 09:46:15 +0100 wrote: > On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 10:18:44AM +1100, Charlie wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 23:34:42 +0100 > > wrote: > > [...] > > > I think this is called "shading" [...] > > > Thank you Tomas, with that information I found it [...] > > Glad it helped. A

Re: FVWM title bar information......

2021-02-05 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 19:39:01 -0600 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 05 Feb 2021 at 09:23:43 (+1100), Charlie wrote: > > Using FVWM on Debian Bullseye. > > > > Sometimes [too often] I click on something and reduce a terminal > > window to just the title bar alone. > > > > Infuriating, because it

Re: FVWM title bar information......

2021-02-05 Thread tomas
On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 10:18:44AM +1100, Charlie wrote: > On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 23:34:42 +0100 > wrote: [...] > > I think this is called "shading" [...] > Thank you Tomas, with that information I found it [...] Glad it helped. Actually, I was unsure myself, because, although I do use fvwm, I some

Re: FVWM title bar information......

2021-02-04 Thread David Wright
On Fri 05 Feb 2021 at 09:23:43 (+1100), Charlie wrote: > Using FVWM on Debian Bullseye. > > Sometimes [too often] I click on something and reduce a terminal window > to just the title bar alone. > > Infuriating, because it catches me unawares and I don't realise what I > did. Googling every

Re: FVWM title bar information......

2021-02-04 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 23:34:42 +0100 wrote: > On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 09:23:43AM +1100, Charlie wrote: > > > > From my keyboard: > > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > Using FVWM on Debian Bullseye. > > > > Sometimes [too often] I click on something and reduce a terminal > > window to just

Re: FVWM title bar information......

2021-02-04 Thread tomas
On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 09:23:43AM +1100, Charlie wrote: > > From my keyboard: > > Hello Everyone, > > Using FVWM on Debian Bullseye. > > Sometimes [too often] I click on something and reduce a terminal window > to just the title bar alone. I think this is called "shading" th

Re: fvwm -- undeserved BAD PRESS

2018-02-27 Thread David Wright
On Tue 27 Feb 2018 at 03:58:30 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > I have days (e actually hours) of experience with fvwm. > Experts () are telling me that significant mods to config > files *MANDATORY*. bull!! > > Can tweaking config file(s) be profitable? -- Sure! > Are they necessary?

Re: fvwm -- undeserved BAD PRESS

2018-02-27 Thread John Hasler
Richard Owlett writes: > I have days (e actually hours) of experience with fvwm. > Experts () are telling me that significant mods to config files > *MANDATORY*. bull!! > Can tweaking config file(s) be profitable? -- Sure! > Are they necessary? -- *NO WAY*! Actually, you can use X

Re: Fvwm.... this actually didn't work........

2014-10-08 Thread lee
Charlie writes: > Further to my first post. > > I noticed I had an extra line under my ~/.fvwm/menudefs.hook: > > # > # This is the Debian menu call as suggested by Vincent W Chen. > # Debian Menu > #-

Re: Fvwm.... this actually didn't work........

2014-10-07 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 06:36:27 + Vincent mentioned this: Re: Fvwm this actually didn't work. > But then this defeats the whole purpose of the Debian menu, since you > now have to maintain your own ~/.fvwm/menudefs.hook. From my keyboard: He

Re: Fvwm.... this actually didn't work........

2014-10-06 Thread Vincent W. Chen
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Charlie wrote: > > This actually didn't work in my ~/.fvwm/functions directory: > > # > # This is the Debian menu call as suggested by Vincent W Chen. > # Debian Menu > #---

Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-10-02 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 17:33:43 -0700 Vincent mentioned this: Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs). > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Charlie > wrote: > > > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:51:41 -0700 Vincent mentioned this: > >

Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-10-01 Thread Vincent W. Chen
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Charlie wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:51:41 -0700 Vincent mentioned this: > Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires > gvfs). > >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Charlie >> wrote: >> > >&

Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-30 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:51:41 -0700 Vincent mentioned this: Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs). > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Charlie > wrote: > > > > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 16:20:27 +0200 lee mentioned this: > >

Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-29 Thread Vincent W. Chen
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Charlie wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 16:20:27 +0200 lee mentioned this: > Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires > gvfs). > >> >> >> Steve Litt writes: >> >> >> >> Becau

Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-27 Thread lee
Charlie writes: >> On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 16:20:27 +0200 lee mentioned this: >> >> Please check out [1] --- let me know if it works for you and how you >> like it. >> >> >> [1]: https://github.com/lee-/fvwm > >Hello Lee, > > I've just had a cursory read and you have put a lot of effo

Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-27 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 16:20:27 +0200 lee mentioned this: Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs). > > >> Steve Litt writes: > >> > >> Because you use fvwm on a regular basis, you should write some > >> documentation o

Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-27 Thread lee
>> Steve Litt writes: >> >> Because you use fvwm on a regular basis, you should write some >> documentation on it. Please check out [1] --- let me know if it works for you and how you like it. [1]: https://github.com/lee-/fvwm -- Knowledge is volatile and fluid. Software is power. -- To

Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-23 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 00:40:21 +0200 lee sent: > These two functions are described in the man page. > > BTW, either IconMan or IconBox are deprecated --- I don't remember > which one. Thanks Lee, It was ButtonBar for laptop. I removed that entry in my menudefs.hook and it is gone, no longer a wor

Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-23 Thread lee
Charlie writes: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:54:43 +0200 lee sent: > >> Why are things going wrong with it for you, and what >> things? > > Lee, > > If I can jump in here re: fvwm. [fvwm 2.6.5] On my desktop I have this > thing. I has two columns of squares which a

Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-23 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:54:43 +0200 lee sent: > Why are things going wrong with it for you, and what > things? Sorry for the noise Lee. I found what the thing was called. It was a laptop ButtonBar and I got rid of it. So it's done. Thanks for your help, Charlie -- Registered Linux User:

Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-22 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:54:43 +0200 lee sent: > Why are things going wrong with it for you, and what > things? Lee, If I can jump in here re: fvwm. [fvwm 2.6.5] On my desktop I have this thing. I has two columns of squares which are labelled FileMGR - xv -gview and all sorts of things. To

Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-22 Thread lee
Steve Litt writes: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 17:48:13 +0200 > lee wrote: > >> So i3 doesn't have any advantages for me --- fvwm is much more >> flexible and without the utter confusion that arises when you try to >> arrange a number of windows in a particular manner with i3. It even >> wastes less

Re: FVWM + ( Re: startx + ~/.xsession and no ~/.xinitrc, or .xsessionrc )

2013-12-16 Thread Brian
On Mon 16 Dec 2013 at 17:17:01 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 08:25:56PM +, Brian wrote: > > > > Put > > > >exec fvwm > > > > after the xterm command in .xsession. This command does not complete and > > .xsession doesn't close. You've summoned X, give it a chanc

Re: FVWM pop up windows...........

2013-05-28 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 28 May 2013 16:26:11 -0700 "Vincent W. Chen vin...@gmail.com" sent this: >On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:43 PM, wrote: >> Using FVWM - Debian Jessie [testing] and would like to know how I >> move a pop up window. Example the "Save" window. >> >> In Wheezy it was Ctrl +

Re: FVWM pop up windows...........

2013-05-28 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 28 May 2013 12:58:53 -0600 "Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com" sent this: >aries...@skymesh.com.au wrote: >> Using FVWM - Debian Jessie [testing] and would like to know how I >> move a pop up window. Example the "Save" window. >> >> In Wheezy it was Ctrl + Alt and left mouse if memory s

Re: FVWM pop up windows...........

2013-05-28 Thread Vincent W. Chen
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:43 PM, wrote: > Using FVWM - Debian Jessie [testing] and would like to know how I move a pop > up window. Example the "Save" window. > > In Wheezy it was Ctrl + Alt and left mouse if memory serves or just Ctrl and > left mouse for both the main window and the popup? T

Re: FVWM pop up windows...........

2013-05-28 Thread Bob Proulx
aries...@skymesh.com.au wrote: > Using FVWM - Debian Jessie [testing] and would like to know how I > move a pop up window. Example the "Save" window. > > In Wheezy it was Ctrl + Alt and left mouse if memory serves or just > Ctrl and left mouse for both the main window and the popup? On Squeeze, so

RE: fvwm-crystal: without window decoration for screenlets

2009-09-30 Thread Gero Putzar
> Hello folks, > Since a few days, I'm using the nice fvwm-crystal after leaving gnome. > But gnome have screenlets that I want to keep. I can launch them but > the > problem is that they are now with window decoration. What I want is > screenlets without window decoration like it was with Gnome.

[solved] Re: fvwm-crystal and openoffice.org: incompatible?

2009-07-05 Thread lee
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 08:54:58AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 01:47:58AM -0600, lee wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is there an incompatibility between fvwm-crystal and openoffice.org > > (writer)? I'm trying out fvwm (crystal) and now started openoffice to > > open a document. >

Re: fvwm-crystal and openoffice.org: incompatible?

2009-07-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 01:47:58AM -0600, lee wrote: > Hi, > > is there an incompatibility between fvwm-crystal and openoffice.org > (writer)? I'm trying out fvwm (crystal) and now started openoffice to > open a document. fvwm-crystal can use several file managers. Which one do you use? rox? >

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-04-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-27 21:32:55, schrieb Michael Pobega: > Sounds pretty promising though. Besides running an xbindkeys > pseudo-daemon is there any way to set hotkeys in fvwm? I figure I'm > best off asking because fvwm is so configurable, I'd actually be > surprised if it didn't have a way to set hotkeys

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-04-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-26 16:50:07, schrieb Michael Pobega: > I've never liked Fvwm, it looked like it would take too long to > configure. I tried Fvwm-Crystal a while after, and it was pretty nice > in my opinion. It's an easy solution to a complicated configuration > process. ??? -- "fvwm-crystal" IS "fvw

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-04-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-26 06:40:56, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: > Hi, > > Having always had fvwm as window-manager, I decided to look at > fvwm-crystal and installed it. > > Fvwm-crystal may be *based* upon fvwm but it sure is not in the > *tradition* of fvwm. ??? -- "fvwm-crystal" IS ONLY a huge config fi

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:32:55PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > I'll definitely give it a try sometime tomorrow afternoon, but I'm not > saying I'd dump Window Maker for it ;P > > Sounds pretty promising though. Besides running an xbindkeys > pseudo-daemon is there any way to set hotkeys in fvwm

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:11:37PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: [snip interesting reviews of WMs] Fvwm: Too hard to configure for me, but from what I've seen it's an awesome window manager after reading through all of the docs. It takes a day to a w

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:11:37PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: [snip interesting reviews of WMs] Fvwm: Too hard to configure for me, but from what I've seen it's an awesome window manager after reading through all of the docs. It takes a day to a week to configure how you

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-27 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 11:47:10AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:11:37PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > [snip interesting reviews of WMs] > > [fvwm-crystal review] > > I'm running fvwm on my laptop (49M of RAM 1.2G HDD). I have to use the > vesa driver cause the cirrus

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:11:37PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: [snip interesting reviews of WMs] > Fvwm: Too hard to configure for me, but from what I've seen it's an > awesome window manager after reading through all of the docs. It takes > a day to a week to configure how you want, but it's well

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ion2: Arguably the lightest window manager available. I loved Ion2 and Have you tried OpenBox? Now its my WM of choice for super light environments. > Fluxbox: A nice window manager, I really only use it when I'm running Also nice. I used it before O

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-27 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: >> So tell me, Why did you decide Window Maker was better than fvwm-crystal >> and what about other managers like blackbox or XFCE. All of them are >> lightweight according to what I have read. > Well, I've tried out a lot of Wi

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-26 Thread Michael Pobega
> > So tell me, Why did you decide Window Maker was better than fvwm-crystal > and what about other managers like blackbox or XFCE. All of them are > lightweight according to what I have read. > > Personally I like KDE because it is so configurable and has a very > constant look with it's apps,

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-26 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:40:56AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Having always had fvwm as window-manager, I decided to look at >> fvwm-crystal and installed it. >> >> Fvwm-crystal may be *based* upon fvwm but it s

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-26 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:40:56AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Having always had fvwm as window-manager, I decided to look at > fvwm-crystal and installed it. > > Fvwm-crystal may be *based* upon fvwm but it sure is not in the > *tradition* of fvwm. > > In fvwm the centerpiece is t

Re: fvwm

2007-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 09:18:52AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:33:33AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:12:27PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > > I installed fvwm, and I'm running it in another session, I must say, > > > without messing with

Re: fvwm

2007-02-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:33:33AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:12:27PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >>> I installed fvwm, and I'm running it in another session, I must say, >>> without messing with

Re: fvwm

2007-02-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:12:27PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >> I installed fvwm, and I'm running it in another session, I must say, >> without messing with any configuration, it looks quite impressive. It >> seems faster than kd

Re: fvwm (was: Re: Firefox/Iceweasel's weird close/quit behaviour)

2007-02-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:33:33AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:12:27PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > I installed fvwm, and I'm running it in another session, I must say, > > without messing with any configuration, it looks quite impressive. It > > seems faster than kde,

Re: fvwm (was: Re: Firefox/Iceweasel's weird close/quit behaviour)

2007-02-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:12:27PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > I installed fvwm, and I'm running it in another session, I must say, > without messing with any configuration, it looks quite impressive. It > seems faster than kde, which is a no-brainer since KDE is so demanding > on the resources. Yep

Re: fvwm (was: Re: Firefox/Iceweasel's weird close/quit behaviour)

2007-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:42:35 -0500 Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:12:27 +0100 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > I installed fvwm, and I'm running it in another session, I must say, > > without messing with any configuration, it looks quite impres

Re: fvwm (was: Re: Firefox/Iceweasel's weird close/quit behaviour)

2007-02-26 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:12:27 +0100 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I installed fvwm, and I'm running it in another session, I must say, > without messing with any configuration, it looks quite impressive. It > seems faster than kde, which is a no-brainer since KDE is so demanding >

Re: FVWM Question

2006-06-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Raphael Brunner wrote: Dear Users I tryed the fvwm-crystal window-manager and it looks very nice and usefull. But, I want to modify the menue-bar and customise other programs. But, I don't know where. I changed a lot of things in /usr/share/fvwm-crystal/Applications/... but, it seems like it don

Re: FVWM Question

2006-06-07 Thread Dimitar Vukman
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 02:04:37 +0200 Raphael Brunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone a good howto or a good start-doc where is what and how are > common ways to change settings like the menues? I use *common* fvwm, parhaps this will help: http://www.zensites.net/fvwm/guide/ http://www.fvwm.

Re: fvwm question..

2004-10-05 Thread bing yu
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:12:24AM +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > I wasn't referring to anything XFS specific. XFS implements standard > unix permissions, so you want to look at the man pages for chmod and > chown. Thank you, Problem solved by simply chmod of the mounting point. > > > -- > To

Re: fvwm question..

2004-10-04 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time bing yu said... > > As Cameron Hutchison's reply to the list, I will check the docs of XFS > to see the permissions. I wasn't referring to anything XFS specific. XFS implements standard unix permissions, so you want to look at the man pages for chmod and chown. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: fvwm question..

2004-10-04 Thread bing yu
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 12:30:33PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > can't you setup your /mnt/media so that you don't need root? > something along the lines (one of the following): sorry I did make my problem stated clearly I want mount /dev/hda6 to /mnt/media(the date on hda6 is mostly some vide

Re: fvwm question..

2004-10-03 Thread Erik Steffl
bing yu wrote: I can not get message from fvwm list, Please forgive me posting here. in my .fvwmrc Key rA MExec exec crxvt-gb so Alt+r can open a crxvt terminal After I open crxvt, I usually do this : $su password:(enter my pwd) # cd /mnt/media/ my question is straitforward(l

Re: fvwm question..

2004-10-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
bing yu wrote: I can not get message from fvwm list, Please forgive me posting here. in my .fvwmrc Key rA MExec exec crxvt-gb so Alt+r can open a crxvt terminal After I open crxvt, I usually do this : $su password:(enter my pwd) # cd /mnt/media/ my question is straitforward(l

Re: fvwm question..

2004-10-03 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 21:02:19 +0200, bing yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can not get message from fvwm list, Please forgive me posting here. > > in my .fvwmrc > > Key rA MExec exec crxvt-gb > > so Alt+r can open a crxvt terminal > > After I open crxvt, I usually do this : > $su

Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-16 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Unfortunately the new DebianMenu file does not read > main-menu-pre.hook, so it is not possible to put your own stuff at > the start of the menu, so my customised menu has my stuff after the > standard debian stuff now. This I had to do in menudefs.hook where > I used to

Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-09 Thread Stefan Bellon
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Stefan Bellon wrote: > > I don't see how the upstream FVWM mailing lists could help me with a > > problem of the packaging of the latest Debian FVWM package. > You know for sure that it is packaging problem and not an upstream > change? Yes, of course. It's just the way

Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-09 Thread Stefan Bellon
Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Once upon a time Stefan Bellon said... [snip] > > I copied the old contents of /etx/X11/fvmw/* to my ~/.fvwm so that > > I maintain the state that I had until two days ago. But somehow > > this is still unsatisfying. > I went into /etc/X11/fvwm and copied all the .dpkg

Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-09 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Stefan Bellon said... > > Oh, the new version of FVWM has an impressive configuration "wizard". > It's really not bad. But you cannot configure everything. And the > configuration files it produces are split over a dozen files in > ~/.fvwm/. So, if I want to add my more special ch

Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-09 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Stefan Bellon wrote: hugo vanwoerkom wrote: Stefan Bellon wrote: hugo vanwoerkom wrote: [snip] Unless someone knows this, my only solution is to subscribe to the mailinglist and ask :-( Which mailing list? http://www.fvwm.org/contact/ I don't see how the upstream FVWM mailing lists could

Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-09 Thread Stefan Bellon
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Stefan Bellon wrote: > > hugo vanwoerkom wrote: [snip] > >>Unless someone knows this, my only solution is to subscribe to the > >>mailinglist and ask :-( > > > > Which mailing list? > http://www.fvwm.org/contact/ I don't see how the upstream FVWM mailing lists could h

Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-08 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Stefan Bellon wrote: hugo vanwoerkom wrote: Stefan Bellon wrote: I'm running Debian GNU/Linux unstable on my box here. For some reason I was running fvwm 2.4.16-2 till today (not sure why it didn't get updated). Just right now there was an update to fvwm 2.5.10-2. The problem now is, that I had m

Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-08 Thread Stefan Bellon
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Stefan Bellon wrote: > > I'm running Debian GNU/Linux unstable on my box here. For some > > reason I was running fvwm 2.4.16-2 till today (not sure why it > > didn't get updated). Just right now there was an update to fvwm > > 2.5.10-2. The problem now is, that I had my who

Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-07 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Stefan Bellon wrote: I'm running Debian GNU/Linux unstable on my box here. For some reason I was running fvwm 2.4.16-2 till today (not sure why it didn't get updated). Just right now there was an update to fvwm 2.5.10-2. The problem now is, that I had my whole configuration in a file ~/.fvwm/post.h

Re: FVWM: FvwmButtons: swallowed clock applet with xft capabilities?

2004-02-01 Thread Alex Fitterling
Am Sonntag, 1. Februar 2004 07:55 schrieb Alexander Fitterling: Excuse me. I was answering too quick. Of course I've seen the screenshot. This is looking nice. I was trying to use it as swallowed applet like this: *FvwmButtons-Panel: (35x1, Swallow "FvwmClock" `FvwmScript $[HOME]/.fvwm/bin/F \vw

Re: fvwm 2.5.8 as Debian package

2003-12-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:03:26PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > until recently, I have been using > for debianing the latest fvwm > packages. However, since the Debian machines were compromised, I > cannot access this directory anymore. > > For

Re: fvwm 2.5.8 as Debian package

2003-12-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:03:26PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > until recently, I have been using > for debianing the latest fvwm > packages. However, since the Debian machines were compromised, I > cannot access this directory anymore. > > For

Re: fvwm 2.5.8 as Debian package

2003-12-16 Thread Paul Smith
You can get DEBs created by Mikhael Goikhman (one of the FVWM maintainers) at the fvwm-themes site: http://fvwm-themes.sourceforge.net/ -- --- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools "Pl

Re: fvwm 2.5.8 as Debian package

2003-12-16 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Ter, 2003-12-16 Ãs 11:03, Lukas Ruf escreveu: > For this reason, I would like to ask you whether there is another > location around where I can find the respective packages. Try asking at http://apt-get.org./ -- Leandro Guimaraes Faria Corcete Dutra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Prefeitura do

Re: fvwm leaving defunct processes?

2002-10-02 Thread Paul Smith
%% Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: r> Maybe you should review the manual at http://www.fvwm.org, because r> there's a *lot* of config file changes compared to earlier versions. Heh. I'm a FVWM developer (anyway I have cvs access although I've not had time to do much work for quite a whi

Re: Fvwm configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Glyn Millington
Udo Schlaepfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Many thanks for this. So I can read in the _system_ menudefs.hook and >> the autogenerated menus will appear? > > Of course you can: > > , > | Read /etc/X11/fvwm/menudefs.hook Quiet > | > | Mouse

Re: Fvwm configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Udo Schlaepfer
Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Many thanks for this. So I can read in the _system_ menudefs.hook and > the autogenerated menus will appear? Of course you can: , | Read /etc/X11/fvwm/menudefs.hook Quiet | | Mouse 1 R A Menu /Debian ` This will bind the Debian menu to m

Re: Fvwm configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Glyn Millington
Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I use three of the hook files: Thanks for these! >> Can anyone point me to a full sample configuration ? Or maybe share >> their own ? > > I'd be happy you to send you my config files if you still want them. If you could that might be very h

Re: Fvwm configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Glyn Millington said... > > I want to do this in the Debain way though - What I cannot completely > grasp is the Debian way with fvwm, where most of the user configuration > is done in "hook" files called from the system .fvwm2rc file. I'm not > clear what should go into which h

Re: Fvwm configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Glyn Millington
Udo Schlaepfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> but instead to add user customizations via hooks in the ~/.fvwm >> directory. Then the packaging system can update menus and the system >> .fvwm2rc if it so wishes without codging up your customisations. > > Witch it can still do if you maintain your

Re: Fvwm configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Udo Schlaepfer
Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Udo - many thanks for the reply. My problem is this:- np > As I said earlier, I have read the docs, as well as the manpages! What > the doc about the system file says explicitly is that one should NOT do > what you are recommending, Not true: ,-

Re: Fvwm configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Glyn Millington
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Glyn> Can anyone point me to a full sample configuration ? Or maybe share > Glyn> their own ? > > You do not have to use the system .fvwm2rc file. Here is my > setup http://people.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/X.tar.bz2 (It is my > complete X se

Re: Fvwm configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Glyn" == Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Glyn> I want to do this in the Debain way though - What I cannot completely Glyn> grasp is the Debian way with fvwm, where most of the user configuration Glyn> is done in "hook" files called from the system .fvwm2rc file. I'm not Glyn>

Re: Fvwm configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Glyn Millington
Udo Schlaepfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I want to do this in the Debain way though - What I cannot completely >> grasp is the Debian way with fvwm, where most of the user configuration >> is done in "hook" files called from the system .fvwm2rc

Re: Fvwm configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Udo Schlaepfer
Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to do this in the Debain way though - What I cannot completely > grasp is the Debian way with fvwm, where most of the user configuration > is done in "hook" files called from the system .fvwm2rc file. I'm not > clear what should go into which

Re: [: fvwm font problem]

2002-05-13 Thread Martin A. Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/init.d# locale LANG=da_DK LC_CTYPE="da_DK" LC_NUMERIC="da_DK" LC_TIME="da_DK" LC_COLLATE="da_DK" LC_MONETARY="da_DK" LC_MESSAGES=en_US LC_PAPER="da_DK" LC_NAME="da_DK" LC_ADDRESS="da_DK" LC_TELEPHONE="da_DK" LC_MEASUREMENT="da_DK" LC_IDENTIFICATION="da_DK" LC_ALL= On Mon,

Re: fvwm pager display

2001-02-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks, but that doesn't address what I'm after. I can set the title bar fine; it's the mnemonic in the fvwm pager that doesn't get it. -- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology Chapel Hill, North Car

Re: fvwm pager display

2001-02-25 Thread mike polniak
Andrew Perrin wrote: > Greetings- > > This is perhaps a silly question, but here goes. I use fvwm(2) under > potato, and many of the windows I have open at any time are ssh sessions > to somewhere else. I typically open these with entries in my fvwm menu > that run something like this: > > + "st

Re: FVWM menus and colors

2001-01-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Richard Cobbe wrote: ... about fvwm default setting etc... > I didn't like the debian defaults much either, but I wanted to keep the > automatically-generated menus. So, in my post.hook, I created a *new* > top-level menu, which contains the Debian automatic menu system as one of > its choices, an

Re: FVWM menus and colors

2001-01-24 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, January 24, Erik Steffl did write: > Xucaen wrote: > > what is auto-generation? where is the program > > called update-menus(is it a program??), how do I > > yes, that's it, to find a program: > > which program > locate program > find / -name program -print This ass

Re: FVWM menus and colors

2001-01-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Xucaen wrote: > > Hi all.. > does anyone else use fvwm? I was just playing you bet! > with some configs and while reading the docs > about adding to the menu, it says: > > "The menu auto-generation stuff puts the > generated menus in this system-wide file. As any > edits the system administr

Re: fvwm jpg background

2000-12-03 Thread Michael Sauer
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, ktb wrote: > I see how to use the FvwmBacker module and FvwmBackerDesk to > set an xpm image as wallpaper but I don't see how I can use a > jpg as wallpaper with fvwm. Anyone know how to do this? > Thanks, > kent How about using xv or electric e

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