[gentoo-user] fvwm: how to begin?

[gentoo-user] fvwm: how to begin?

[Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina]

Hi,
I would like to begin configuring fvwm.
I use -crystal theme, but my query would be general:
Where should I start configuring my new fvwm system?

I installed fvwm (2.5.18-r1) + fvwm-crystal (3.0.4) on Gentoo.

I want to have something close to this:
http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops/Nuno_Alexandre-1600x1200/screenshot.jpg

What I really want is:
- Transparent/Translucent Windows thumbnails and have them on the right
or left side of the screen
- Transparent/Translucent Menu
- Changing the default fvwm-crystal menu

So:
- where to begin (What file to edit or create if non existent)?
- what parameter-value to provide?
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Re: [gentoo-user] fvwm: how to begin?

[Pierre-Yves Rofes]

On Thu, January 4, 2007 10:54 pm, Rakotomandimby \(R12y\) Mihamina wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to begin configuring fvwm.
> I use -crystal theme, but my query would be general:
> Where should I start configuring my new fvwm system?
>
> I installed fvwm (2.5.18-r1) + fvwm-crystal (3.0.4) on Gentoo.
>
> I want to have something close to this:
> http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops/Nuno_Alexandre-1600x1200/screenshot.jpg
>
> What I really want is:
> - Transparent/Translucent Windows thumbnails and have them on the right
> or left side of the screen
> - Transparent/Translucent Menu
> - Changing the default fvwm-crystal menu
>
> So:
> - where to begin (What file to edit or create if non existent)?
> - what parameter-value to provide?

Hi,

I think starting a new configuration from scratch is a really bad idea.
It's boring and it will require hours to have something decent.
You'd better to get a working config close from what you want, and then
edit it to suit your personal needs and tastes.

My FVWM configuration is available at:
http://py1378.free.fr/pub/fvwm-conf-04-01-2007.tgz

It looks like this:
http://www.lynucs.org/index.php?screen_type=1&screen_id=213649944543f2f9def2cdf&m=screen

Most of the parameters used in FVWM are pretty self-explanatory,
For example, to change the thumbnails position, you'll have to modify the
IconBox style in the "Thumbnails" section.

HTH,

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Re: [gentoo-user] fvwm: how to begin?

[Daniel Vrcic]

* Pierre-Yves Rofes <gentoo@rofes.fr> [07-01-05 11:42]:
> Hi,
> 
> I think starting a new configuration from scratch is a really bad idea.
> It's boring and it will require hours to have something decent.
> You'd better to get a working config close from what you want, and then
> edit it to suit your personal needs and tastes.

Yeah, I agree to that. It's easier to adapt the someone's config than
start a new one from a scratch mainly beacuse you need to have a picture
of what you want from your WM and a right directions to start. I know
I should need menu, taskbar and pager, but what to read, where to
start from? If you're convicted only to a man pages then that's PITA. It
will take hours to figure out what sections of which man pages to
read. Written tutorials help a bit, but still it takes quite a lot to
become familiar with a simple options. IMHO, fvwm has a lack of the
good structured and a heavily cross linked documentation, the one like
mutt and mplayer have. There are so many options, available keywords
that can't be just bundled in a single man pages. There were also some
proposals of the default configuration which is good as a guideline, but
I'm sure that it wouldn't present not even the third of the available
customizations. So as a result you're ending up with a heavy research of
forums, mail lists, available configs, wiki and that takes time...

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