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krax

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From: Tory;Mi

Registered: 2010-06-26

Posts: 62

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Create a Panel with FvwmButtons

Hello;
I am trying to make a simple panel out of FvwmButtons. I want to use it instead of FvwmTaskBar. Because there was too many old stuff in the web I asked for Help here.
I want to understand FvwmButton and the process it involves; So I devise a scenario.

+----------------------------------+---------+-------------+----------------+
|                                  |FvwmPager|             |                |
|                 FvwmIconMan      |         |      Xclock |Standalone Tray |
|                                  |         |             |                |
|                                  |         |             |                |
+----------------------------------+---------+-------------+----------------+
 

A. How to split FvwmButtons into this scheme?
B. How to Swallow this things into it?
C. How to manage The Space as it grows? (FvwmIconMan will grow by windows opened)
*D. How to tell the whole deal to sit at the bottom of the desktop (all the desktops) and other windows like (firefox and so on) to respect its place and no to go under or over it?
Thanks

Last edited by krax (2014-03-16 23:44:24)

Iranon

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Registered: 2011-06-11

Posts: 146

Re: Create a Panel with FvwmButtons

A. & B. The manual on the official page is kept up to date, and helpful in this respect, it actually contains an example of swallowing an Xclock instance. If you have read it, what exactly is the problem?

C. To my knowledge, FvwmButtons isn't set up to deal with that.

D. EWMHBaseStruts control the restricted area. Style options EWMHUseStrutHints and EWMHIgnoreStrutHints control which windows respect it.