Hi,
Steve McIntyre wrote:
> http://www.einval.com/~steve/debian/fvwm2rc.example
I won't follow you with the sound effects. :))
My favorite personal customization is giving the Windows keys
a decent job:
Key Super_L A N RaiseLower
Key Super_R A N RaiseLower
On a previous machine there was
Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>Nicolas George wrote:
>> [fvwm2] it seems ill-loved by Debian maintainers:
>
>the old fart user to get it to run "As It Always Was" (TM).
>
>Google "fvwm2rc" finds the configuration of Eric S. Raymond,
>color marked examples, starter examples, ...
>
>After installation of fvw
Hi,
I solved the problem.
The locales Package was configured to use en_US.UTF-8 for its language
environment. This causes fvwm to not display some fonts and also no menu
entries because of missing characters in these fonts.
The dependency to xdm seems to be another changed that I obviously had
do
Je 2001/05/23(3)/11:05, Joerg Johannes montris sian geniecon skribante:
> Hi List
>
> Using sid in the most recent version with XFree4.0.3, I just switched to
> the good old fvwm I used to have in SuSE times (I never liked KDE and
> Gnome).
>
> 1.) .Xresources. Well, the problem I have is: when s
On 23 May, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> 4.) the background and mouse pointer. The background (and the
> mouspointer) fvwm2 uses are just the same as in the gdm login screen. I
> tried to set a pixmap for the background, but xsetroot seems to accept
> only black/white xbm's. I remember from SuSE times
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:37:29AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
> Joerg Johannes wrote:
> > 3.1) the menus (general). I have poked around in the reades, and read a
> > lot about "hook files". I did not quite understand how to use them. I
> > understood it in so far, that it is not very smart to have a
Joerg Johannes wrote:
>
> Hi List
>
> Using sid in the most recent version with XFree4.0.3, I just switched to
> the good old fvwm I used to have in SuSE times (I never liked KDE and
> Gnome).
>
> 1.) .Xresources. Well, the problem I have is: when starting emacs from
> the fvwm-mennu, it starts
ktb wrote:
>
> Create a directory ".fvwm2" in your home directory, if you don't have
> one. In that directory create the file "background.color" put in the
> color you want for example mine is "DarkSlateGray4" Make sure you have
> a line in your ".fvwm2rc" file that looks like this --
>
> Read
Create a directory ".fvwm2" in your home directory, if you don't have
one. In that directory create the file "background.color" put in the
color you want for example mine is "DarkSlateGray4" Make sure you have
a line in your ".fvwm2rc" file that looks like this --
Read .fvwm2/init.hook
Read the
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 06:21:33PM +, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> How do I set a default colour to the this window manager so that its the
> same every time I log on?
In potato/woody (perhaps slink), see the man page for 'setup-background'
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi i
> How can I get an xterm to start on a specific virtual desktop in fvwm2?
>
> I've got this in my init-restart.hook:
> + "I" Exec xterm -xrm "*Page:0 2 1"
>
> but that doesn't seem to work. I'm using the default Debian system.fvwm2rc
> with one desktop but a 3x3 virtual set up.
>
[17:35:20 /tmp
Brian Servis wrote:
> *- On 25 Aug, John Carline wrote about "Re: fvwm2 configuration"
> > "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I use fvwm2 as a window manager in slink. In
> >> /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fv
Hello E.L.,
On 24-Aug-99, you wrote:
EM\} Hi all,
EM\}
EM\} I use fvwm2 as a window manager in slink. In
EM\} /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc, the FvwmPager module is started with
EM\} one desk, after .fvwm2/post.hook is read. I like to start FvwmPager
EM\} with three desks, and do that in my post
On 25 Aug, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 10:37:35PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
>> *- On 25 Aug, John Carline wrote about "Re: fvwm2 configuration"
>> > "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" wrote:
>> >
> [ problems to get a pager with m
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 10:37:35PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> *- On 25 Aug, John Carline wrote about "Re: fvwm2 configuration"
> > "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" wrote:
> >
[ problems to get a pager with multiple desks in fvwm2 ]
> >
> > Probably the si
*- On 25 Aug, John Carline wrote about "Re: fvwm2 configuration"
> "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I use fvwm2 as a window manager in slink. In
>> /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc, the FvwmPager module is started with one
>>
"E.L. Meijer (Eric)" wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I use fvwm2 as a window manager in slink. In
> /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc, the FvwmPager module is started with one
> desk, after .fvwm2/post.hook is read. I like to start FvwmPager with
> three desks, and do that in my post.hook file. As a result th
I think slink has only got fvwm 2.0.
If you have apt, apt-get fvwm2 will install fvwm2.0.46 for you.
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 08:20:04AM -0700, Robert Jones wrote:
> Does anyone know of a location for getting slink debs of fvwm2 version 2.2? I
> managed to find 'em for potato, but they require a
*- On 2 Aug, Robert Jones wrote about "fvwm2 debs"
> Does anyone know of a location for getting slink debs of fvwm2 version 2.2? I
> managed to find 'em for potato, but they require a long chain of dependencies
> which I don't feel the need to do at this time.
>
>
The fvwm 2.2.2-2 package in p
Fu-Dong Chiou wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone tell me which file is fvwm2's preference? Thanks!
Take a look at the file .fvwm2rc there it explains the differernt
"*.hook" files you can create in order to do it the debian way. I place
the exterms and so forth that I want to load on startup in
~.f
Fu-Dong Chiou wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone tell me which file is fvwm2's preference? Thanks!
>
I assume you mean fvwm2's configuration file?
Try "/etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc" or "~/.fvwm2rc" Also check out the "hook"
files
in the fvwm2 directory. If your files arn't located there, do a "locat
On Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 07:12:41AM -0500, Tommy Malloy wrote:
> I am trying to get out of the habit of modifying my system as root and
> am attempting to modify fvwm2 as a user. I am having some problems.
> This is what I have done.
>
> copied /etc/x11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc to ~/fvwm2rc
>> "RM" == Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RM> I think that your ~/.fvwm2rc may override the system.fvwm2rc in
RM> /etc somewhere; IIRC, it says in the man pages and/or the comments
RM> on the system file that you should use ~/.fvwm2/*.hook for
RM> customization.
The doc is /usr/doc/fvwm
On 8 Feb 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>> Start fvwm2 on your account. Same problem?
"MCV" == M C Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MCV> It doesn't look like fvwm2 at all.
Then check with ps ax | grep fvwm if it is fvwm2 running. The first
line in /etc/X11/window-managers defines the stan
I think that your ~/.fvwm2rc may override the system.fvwm2rc in /etc
somewhere; IIRC, it says in the man pages and/or the comments on the system
file that you should use ~/.fvwm2/*.hook for customization. I just copied
the one from /etc/ into my home directory to be safe and have never had any
pr
On 8 Feb 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>
> >> "MCV" == M C Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> MCV> shows an option to exit fvwm2, and nothing else. I have menu
> MCV> installed, and the various config files in /etc/X11/fvwm2 seem to
> MCV> be there, but a decent menu is not being generated
On 8 Feb 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>
> >> "MCV" == M C Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> MCV> shows an option to exit fvwm2, and nothing else. I have menu
> MCV> installed, and the various config files in /etc/X11/fvwm2 seem to
> MCV> be there, but a decent menu is not being generated
>> "MCV" == M C Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MCV> shows an option to exit fvwm2, and nothing else. I have menu
MCV> installed, and the various config files in /etc/X11/fvwm2 seem to
MCV> be there, but a decent menu is not being generated. Any ideas?
Try running update-menu as root with ver
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:41:01PM +, ktb wrote:
> Hey, "+ I exec xterm -geometry +154+137 &" worked! Now how do I get
> rid of my initial xterm window that pops up when I first log in?
I had that problem until I created a .xsession file in my home directory,
like this:
#!/bin/sh
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:41:01PM +, ktb wrote:
[snip]
> Hey, "+ I exec xterm -geometry +154+137 &" worked! Now how do I get
> rid of
> my
> initial xterm window that pops up when I first log in? I copied my
> /etc/profile
> file to ~/.bachrc to get the new xterm window to behave like the
>
On 25 Jan, ktb wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm using fvwm2 for my windows manager under xdm. I'm trying
> to get the initial xterm window to appear in the center of my screen
instead
> of the upper left hand corner. I looked at,
>
> /usr/doc/fvwm2/README.sysrc.gz and it said to:
>
> init.hook
>
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 10:27:33PM -0400, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
>
> Well, you don't have to start your FvwmButtons from the menu - you can
> just start it automatically (assuming you always want it to be there);
> on one account on my machine, this is done by putting all the
> customizati
Curt Daugaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I like the design of the Debian menu package, and I'm trying to
> follow the docs to get auto-updating of menus under X, but I seem
> to have hit a roadblock.
>
> I use Fvwm2, and according to the comments in system.fvwm2rc
> and the Fvwm2 docs--in the
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 09:02:37PM -0400, Tom Malloy wrote:
> I am very upset by these hook things. I do not understand them. They seem
> to be much harder to work with than regular configuration (.*rc) files.
> They seem to require that the user know which hook file to edit. There
> are several,
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Tom Malloy wrote:
> editing the existing configuration file. This is practically impossible
> for the novice user.
I wouldn't say I'm a novice but I had much the same problem, I used to
have a great little .fvwmrc file and I wanted to do same thing with my
.fvwm2rc file but
Tom Malloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| I am very upset by these hook things. I do not understand them. They seem
| to be much harder to work with than regular configuration (.*rc) files.
| They seem to require that the user know which hook file to edit. There
| are several, prethis.hook posttha
Chris wrote:
> Tom Malloy wrote:
>
> But there is just no reason or justification for organizing
> configuration files
> in this confusing and intimidating manner. Applications, and os's, should be
> usable
> and reasonably configurably at every level of userability.
If you feel you have to re
Hi,
If you like programming by example, I can provide you with a
live copy of my fvwm config files (16Kgzipped) which should be a good
start.
http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/fvwmconf.tar.gz> has a
copy. I did not include the custom xpm and gif files that I use,
since it is
Tom Malloy wrote:
But there is just no reason or justification for organizing configuration
files
in this confusing and intimidating manner. Applications, and os's, should be
usable
and reasonably configurably at every level of userability.
Well then, if that's what you want then get KDE or s
Hi,
> "Martin" == Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> "DB" == Dirk Bonne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DB> I've update from bo to hamm, and now I can't drag a window
DB> accross virtual screens.
Martin> The behavour has changed upstream. Get the debian sources
Matt Kopishke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have X (finally) working on my machine (bo), I am running FVWM2 and was
> wondering what I do to add a pattern or color (prefer pattern) to the
> desktop. I now you edit the fvwm.rc file, but what do I edit, what
> format file do I use for the patt
On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 02:52:37PM +0200, Dirk Bonne wrote:
> I've update from bo to hamm, and now I can't drag a window accross
> virtual screens.
If you don't have the virtual screens at all, make sure there is a
DeskTopSize entry in ~/.fvwm2/post-hook or /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc
I use "De
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>
> >> "DB" == Dirk Bonne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> DB> I've update from bo to hamm, and now I can't drag a window accross
> DB> virtual screens.
>
> The behavour has changed upstream. Get the debian sources for the
> package (fvwm2*.{dsc, diff.gz, orig.tar.gz} an
>> "DB" == Dirk Bonne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DB> I've update from bo to hamm, and now I can't drag a window accross
DB> virtual screens.
The behavour has changed upstream. Get the debian sources for the
package (fvwm2*.{dsc, diff.gz, orig.tar.gz} and unpack it with
dpkg-source -x fvwm2*.ds
>> "BR" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BR> [1 ]
BR> On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 01:13:13AM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>> You did check, that you don't have a ~/.fvwm2/main-menu-pre.hook ?
BR> Uh, the main-menu-pre.hook I included WAS from $HOME/.fvwm2.
>> Disable the line an
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 01:13:13AM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> You did check, that you don't have a ~/.fvwm2/main-menu-pre.hook ?
Uh, the main-menu-pre.hook I included WAS from $HOME/.fvwm2.
> Disable the line and see what happens.
>
> The main-menu-pre.hook you sent was from /etc/X11/fvw
>> "BR" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BR> After a recent upgrade of fvwm2, the window manager seems to be processing
BR> at least some of my $HOME/.fvwm2/*.hook files twice. Used to be, the
BR> attached main-menu-pre.hook file did the expected thing. Now, the menus
BR> I custo
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 01:28:21 +1000, wrote:
> For quite a while, I have not been able to see most icons in fvwm2 (or other
> windows managers, except afterstep, which keeps icons in a certain
> directory). As far as I can recall, icons were visible for a brief time
> when I first installed Debian o
>> For quite a while, I have not been able to see most icons in fvwm2 (or other
>> windows managers, except afterstep, which keeps icons in a certain
>> directory). As far as I can recall, icons were visible for a brief time
>> when I first installed Debian on this machine in July 1997.
Is the
Try this line in you .fvwm2rc Put in the FvwmButtons section. Also look at
the FvwmButtons man page. That's where I copied the line from.
*FvwmButtons (4x1, Swallow "FvwmPager" 'FvwmPager 0 1' Frame 1)
On 22-Jan-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>I am unable to get either FvwmButtons or TkGoodStu
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> Did you know that with the default bindings ALT-clicking
> on a window raises it, while an ALT-right-click lowers it? Perhaps this
> would serve your needs?
I got so used to this on my Linux machine that I set up my Solaris/CDE in
the office with th
Santi Mauro wrote:
> I am using fvwm2 and I want to configure it in the following
> maner :
>
> If I click with the mouse on a window, this window becomes the
> active one and raises on the top.
>
> I didn't manage to write the corrects instructions in my .fvwm2rc
> file in order t
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > I am using fvwm2 and I want to configure it in the following
> > maner :
> >
> > If I click with the mouse on a window, this window becomes the
> > active one and raises on the top.
> >
> > I didn't manage to write the corrects instruct
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Santi Mauro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using fvwm2 and I want to configure it in the following
> maner :
>
> If I click with the mouse on a window, this window becomes the
> active one and raises on the top.
>
> I didn't manage to write the corrects instructions
> If you have the default system.fvwm2rc file active, it also
> starts the pager at the end. To get the pager on all desktops,
> you have to put
>
> Style "FvwmPager" Sticky
>
> somewhere in the initializaion. Putting it in post.hook works
> for instance.
Thanks.
(I did finally figure out h
If you have the default system.fvwm2rc file active, it also
starts the pager at the end. To get the pager on all desktops,
you have to put
Style "FvwmPager" Sticky
somewhere in the initializaion. Putting it in post.hook works
for instance.
Eric Stern
--
TO UNS
I wrote:
> * I'm getting two pagers when I start X.
>
> I added "Module FvwmPager 0 0" to the Debian init-restart.hook file.
Problem: It should have been "+ Module FvwmPager 0 0".
> * When I click in the pager to switch desktops, it does switch desktops,
> but the pager disappears, so I can'
I wrote:
> * When I click in the pager to switch desktops, it does switch desktops,
> but the pager disappears, so I can't use it to return to my original
> desktop.
^^^
Actually, I probably don't mean "desktop."
On Thu, 1 May 1997, Colin Telmer wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>
> I decided to finally make use of the debian menu system by converting my
> old .fvwm2rc into the various hook files that live in .fvwm2/ but I seem
> to be missing something - I added the line
> + "I" Module F
On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> I keep up-to-date with unstable. A few weeks ago I rebooted my machine
> for the first time in ages (had to go to dos/win to do my income tax).
>
> When I started up X, I found that I can still resize windows by dragging
> the corners or edges, but I n
What you say about Afterstep is no longer accurate, as of 0.99pre6-1
(upstream 1.0pre6) since I have changed things so that the Debian
Afterstep now has m4 support compiled in so that we can now use m4
includes for the Debian menus. This is much better than the old method
of using a skeleton file
If I remember correctly the /etc/menus dir is for pkgs you want skipped
when update-menus is run. Maybe skipped is incorrect. It's not updated
by the program but the super-user. Meaning that nothing added by dpkg
will be added to the menus in this dir. Making the menu system
non-operational if
> "Dima" == Dima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dima> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dima> you wrote:
>> But now something keeps adding a DestroyMenu MainMenu to the
>> "/etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook" file, so my premainmenu.hook
>> stuff gets wiped out by it. It started
On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
> If you've got the menu package installed, the /etc/x11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook
> file is auto-generated by "update-menus", and thus should not be
> edited. If you want to add menuentries, you can
> -add them to the end of the menu in your /etc/X11/fvwm2
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
...
> But now something keeps adding a DestroyMenu MainMenu to
>the "/etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook" file, so my premainmenu.hook stuff
>gets wiped out by it. It started after the last upgrade, to the BETA
>version. I have `bug` reported it.
That's one o
> Dima writes:
> >
> > I dunno about changing stuff on reboot, but the easiest way to fix
> > fvwm2 is to put your customizations in ~/.fvwm2/*.hook files.
> >
> > You'll probably need to experiment a little to get it right -- I did,
> > but if you get stuck I can send you my config file
Dima writes:
>
> I dunno about changing stuff on reboot, but the easiest way to fix
> fvwm2 is to put your customizations in ~/.fvwm2/*.hook files.
>
> You'll probably need to experiment a little to get it right -- I did,
> but if you get stuck I can send you my config files.
I did tha
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997 20:14:35 +0800 Lu Jimmy Chenji
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I installed X-window and tried to add fvwm2 window manager in it.
> I used dselect for the installation and it completed successfully.
> When I excute "startx", my PC starts to run X server but all the
> sudden the
> I installed X-window and tried to add fvwm2 window manager in it.
> I used dselect for the installation and it completed successfully.
> When I excute "startx", my PC starts to run X server but all the
> sudden the screen will go back to "Text mode". To understand what's
> going on, I run xinit
Lu Jimmy Chenji wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I installed X-window and tried to add fvwm2 window manager in it.
> I used dselect for the installation and it completed successfully.
> When I excute "startx", my PC starts to run X server but all the
> sudden the screen will go back to "Text mode". To unde
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Lu Jimmy Chenji wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I installed X-window and tried to add fvwm2 window manager in it.
> I used dselect for the installation and it completed successfully.
> When I excute "startx", my PC starts to run X server but all the
> sudden the screen will go back to
David Puryear writes:
-> I used to use fvwm with NoPPosition and SmartPlacement in system.fvwmrc.
-> I tried to use same thing in fvwm2 and it doesn't work. Any ideas as to
-> how I can use them in fvwm2?
Both of these have become options to the Style command, so that they
can be enforced on a pe
I had this problem too. I changed my mouse type to microsoft in
XF86Config and turned off CordMiddle, and everything worked fine.
Greg
On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Richard Sevenich wrote:
> I just installed Debian 1.1 on a machineand need some help on a problem:
> I am using fvwm2 as the window mana
Hi Richard --
You said:
> I am using fvwm2 as the window manager and have a 3 button logitech mouse
> (serial, mouseman). The icon triggered by the middle button sticks to the
> mouse arrow so that the arrow cannot select from that icon's menu. Is there
> a simple fix?
Check your /etc/X11/XF86Con
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Q2? Is there a deb install package for olwm/olvwm and those related
> apps that go along with it? (such as the slackware install has)
The xview-clients package contains olwm. There is no olvwm package
available yet (and
On Mon, 16 Sep 1996 09:58:03 PDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Q1? Can someone please tell me how to set fvwm2 as the default window
> manager.
Add 'fvwm2' in first position in /etc/X11/window-managers.
> Q2? Is there a deb install package for olwm/olvwm and those related
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>I am using fvwm2-2.0.42-beta-0 on debian 1.1.
>I have just discovered that there are some button functions missing.
>The menu from the top-left corner does not appear when I click on the
>top-left button. Also no list of windows when I click on the right
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