From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 24 17:43:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA08419 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 17:43:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.auracom.net (root@mail1.auracom.net [165.154.140.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA08394 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 17:43:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arthur@col.auracom.com) Received: from outpost.col.auracom.com (ts2-27.tru.auracom.com [165.154.114.91]) by mail1.auracom.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA26989; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 20:45:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:47:10 -0300 (ADT) From: arthur To: Tim Gerchmez cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fave Window Manager... found it. In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980624041543.00805100@mx.serv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > One of the disadvantages of Fvwm2 is that window resizing can be a pain in > the butt. If your desktop and buttonbar are covered up, it becomes very > difficult to resize a window if you need to (you need to iconify it or > switch using the pager before you can resize). I've always preferred > window managers that auto-resize when you click any edge of a window (like > Windows does it), and Fvwm2 doesn't do that. So maybe eventually I'll > switch to something else (but probably not... I've put a LOT of work into > configuring Fvwm2 at this point). > ... I'm using fvwm2, and I find that by default the "Window-Ops2" moduale is tied to the button at the left of the title bar, which you can use to resize the window, or a few other things. Also if you've got a three button mouse the "Window-Ops" module is confgiured to the second button, unfortunately I'm using a two button trackball, so I just switched the "Window-Ops" mod to the trackball's second button. > >and backgrounds are working > >perfectly. :). > > That's another beef I have with Fvwm2. The background chooser (called the > 'backer' module in Fvwm2) is broken, as far as I can see it. You get two > choices - "puke purple" (default) or "bunghole brown" (if you try and use > the backer module). Nothing else seems to work. No pictures, nothing. > The purple is bearable, though. > .... you can cutomize the background color in .fvwm2rc by tweaking the line with "xsetroot" in it, personally I set it to black and then use xloadimage to display gifs or jpgs. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - arthur@col.auracom.com In a world without fences, is there a need for gates --end-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message