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Subject:    Re: FVWM: Alignment of icon label in icon box
From:       Richard Lister <ric () giccs ! georgetown ! edu>
Date:       1999-10-27 18:31:10
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On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:06:01 -0500 (EST)
Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu> 
wrote concerning 'FVWM: Alignment of icon label in icon box':
> 
> I am using fvwm 2.2.2 and was wondering if there is a way to control the
> alignment of the icon label in the icon box.  Currently it appears that
> IconBox only left aligns the labels when not in focus and then centers
> when in focus.  I have an annoying commercial application that has
> really long icon labels and the distinguishing component of the label is
> on the right end of the label.  Is it possible to right align the icon
> label?  Currently I have the following setup to get around the problem.
> 
> *FvwmIconBoxMaxIconSize 156x0
> *FvwmIconBoxFont 5x8
> *FvwmIconBoxSetWMIconSize
> 
> So I have the IconBox really wide with a small font.  This is a bit hard
> on the eyes.  I am able to set the ICON_NAME resource globally for the
> application but then I loose the distinguishing label, i.e. all icons
> would have the same label.

Don't know if this helps, but if you use regular icons instead
of FvwmIconBox, and turn off the icon pixmap for this application,
then you should just get a really long icon title with the whole
string shown.

Alternatively you could set up FvwmIconMan with a manager for
just this app, and make that manager really wide.

Ric

Richard J Lister
Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA
Phone: +1 202-687 2878.
Email: ric@giccs.georgetown.edu 
Web: http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/~ric/
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