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List:       fvwm
Subject:    Re: FVWM: FvwmTaskBar and Desktops
From:       Jim Nicholson <jim () kosmic ! org>
Date:       1999-03-29 14:16:09
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Bob,

I spent some time looking into the TaskBar module, and I've done some
work to replicate the functionality using FvwmButtons and
FvwmIconMan. See my web page (http://osiris.kosmic.org/~jim/) for a
screen shot and config file samples.

The only thing keeping my "taskbar" from being generic is that I need
to specify geometry to get it working on my screen, so as it stands
it's set up to be 1152 pixels wide. I imagine that could be overcome
with some M4 or cpp macros; I never run at any other resolution, so
I've never tackled it.

- Jim


Bob van der Poel writes:
 > Dominik Vogt wrote:
 > > 
 > > On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 11:41:14AM -0700, Bob van der Poel wrote:
 > > > Hi. Just converted over to 2.2 after using fvwm95 for a few years. I'm
 > > > impressed by some of the neat options, etc.
 > > >
 > > > One thing I've not been able to figure out is this. Using the fvwm95
 > > > task bar I set
 > > >
 > > >       *FvwmTaskBarDeskOnly
 > > >
 > > > However, this doesn't appear to work with the fvwm2 taskbar. I copied
 > > > the old fvwm95 taskbar module to my fvwm2 directory and this seems to be
 > > > okay. But I don't like to use modules from one wm for another...
 > > >
 > > > Is there something I'm missing in the docs for the taskbar to get this
 > > > to work?
 > > 
 > > Yes, you're reading the wrong docs ;-) The fvwm2 taskbar simply doesn't
 > 
 > Nope. Reading the right docs...and it isn't there. Just in my fvwm95rc
 > file.
 > 
 > > have this option. The fvwm95 taskbar has some features the fvwm2 version
 > > doesn't have. Probabply because the taskbar is much more important in a
 > 
 > Oh? I'm not sure. I use the task bar all the time (and have icons turned
 > off). I like the clean background screen with xearth running. What I
 > like is to have three or four pages all running separate xterms. Then,
 > for development I just click the task bar to switch between editors,
 > etc. Ummm, if you don't use a task bar, how do you do this? Surely
 > bringing up the window list is much slower. And keeping all the windows
 > on one page is just messy. I'm certainly not a windows guy, so that's
 > not the reason I'm doing it this way....
 > 
 > > Windoze clone. If anybody volunteers to merge the two taskbars I'll
 > > happily put the new version into the fvwm sources.
 > 
 > I will have a look at the differences between the two sources and see if
 > I can make sense of anything....no promises. If someone else wants to do
 > this, no problems.
 > 
 > I've been running the 95 taskbar for a few days and it appears to be
 > find.
 > 
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