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Subject: Re: Removing fvwm2 Task Bar From: "Robert W. Canary" <rwcanary@ohiocounty.net> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 14:26:45 -0600 Hi Chuck, What you could do is uncomment theTaskBarAutoHide in your /etc/X11/AnotherLevel/fvwm2rc.modules.m4, it's under the section TaskBar. :-) Hope that helps ======= From: Cimarron Ryan <cryan@mail.wesleyan.edu> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 03:01:49 -0500 Subject: Re: A simple one(clarification) Gary wrote: > For those who don't know what I'm referring to by manual > window placement (my terminology could be flawed) I want to > have my mouse grab my windows as soon as they open and be > placed manually by a single click. I do not want an > elaborate fvwm2 personal configuration -- although I do > appreciate the suggestion about the tmp file. I just want > manual placement of windows, nothing more. Well, I would > like to have my middle button back on my mouse, and my > cut/copy buffer functioning again would be nice as well. > But in this question, I'm primarily concerned with that one > item. > > Changing the name of the file to fvwm2rc.m4 didn't help > either. > Right now the only contents of the fvwm2rc.m4 file are > > Style "*" ActivePlacement > > I don't even know if that makes sense; I was just trying > somebody's suggestion. What do I need to do? I'm assuming that you named the file .fvwm2rc.m4 rather than fvwm2rc.m4 since .fvwm2rc.m4 is what's probably specified in ~/.Xclients. Whether or not that's the case, I'd suggest editing your /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc and/or /etc/X11/fvwm/system.fvwmrc to replace the line Style "*" RandomPlacement (line 70 in my copy) with Style "*" ActivePlacement === From: <?> Date: 1 Mar 1999 ((plus/minus a month)) Subject: Re: A simple one Gary wrote: > Could anyone tell me how to enable manual window placement > in my fvwm2 AnotherLevel configuration that comes with > RH5.2? > > Gary There's probably a line like Style "*" SmartPlacement, RandomPlacement in your .fvwm2rc file. Changing it to Style "*" ActivePlacement would be my guess. (Or instead of * you could specify the apps you wanted to place manually.) === From: Bruce Richardson <brichardson@lineone.net> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 20:21:56 +0100 (GMT) Subject: RE: Where is the menu file? On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, John Mai wrote: > I am using the Window Maker Manager and want to add some programs from > Fvwm95 to Window Maker but I do not know where the Fvwm95 keeps all the > program commands in the popup menu. > Don't worry about that. First, upgrade to a recent version of WindowMaker - 0.50.x or later. Then make sure your version of wmconfig is at least the version that came with RH 5.2. Why? Well, Red Hat use wmconfig to create a standard set of menus that appear no matter which window manager you use (as long as it's packaged for Red Hat) and which automatically update as you add packages. This can be really annoying - it really messes up AfterStep, for instance - because it overwrites the window manager's own menus and means you have to create menus the wmconfig way rather than the way your window manager provides. The WindowMaker developers, though, have come up with the best way to use wmconfig that I've seen: they have on their menu a Programs submenu that calls wmconfig directly to create the Red Hat specific menus. This lets you benefit from the wmconfig system but at the same time use the excellent WindowMaker config tools to create your own menus. For this you need at least wmconfig 0.6-1 ===