Re: FVWM: deprecated? placing firestorm windows?

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 11:23:56PM +0200, hw wrote:
> Dominik Vogt <[email protected]> writes:
> >> What could be causing this?  Is Firefox somehow claiming the entire
> >> screen because it tries to place the windows itself, making fvwm figure
> >> there is no good place to put them?  Without FixedPPosition, the windows
> >> are still being placed on top of each other.
> >> 
> >> I??ll resort to TileManualPlacement for now because it??s easier to place
> >> the windows where I want them as they are created than it is to move
> >> them once they??re all there.
> >> 
> >> > There's also the option
> >> >
> >> >   bugopts explainwindowplacement on
> >> >
> >> > Which will print a detailed report to the console when new windows
> >> > are placed.
> >> 
> >> You mean the FvwmConsole module?  Nothing is printed there when I enable
> >> this and place any window.
> >
> > No, in the output of the X server, wherever that goes.
> 
> After trying to get systemd to create log files, it apparently goes into
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log (where it might have gone to before).  Alas, no
> output is added to the log file when I use this option and create
> windows.
> 
> Do I need to set compile time options for fvwm to make this work?

No.

> It seems it must be "true" rather than "on", but that doesn't seem to
> give any output, either.

No.  "true", "on" or "1" all work the same.

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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Dominik Vogt