Re: FVWM: One more question...

"Ronald F. Guilmette" <[email protected]> writes:

> I had asked about how to get a digital xclock in the empty space just under
> the analog xclock and the xbiff thingy in the default theme for fvwm...
>
> In message <CAJabFbiCRHYmoLOqu1rpxaN5HJYRffqBjQAjaLFDrU2pQXmLgw@mail.gmail.com>,
> Jaimos Skriletz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Add this command to your StartFunction
>>
>>AddToFunc StartFunction I Test (Init) Exec exec xlock -digtal -strftime '%a %b %d %T'
>>
>>The test is just to ensure it is only run during the init (first
>>start) And not after ever restart.
>
> OK, so I tried that, fixing the one small typo (digtal->digital), which
> was my fault, since it was present in my original question.
>
> The bad news is that just adding that one line top my ~/.fvwm2rc
> file -did- create an effect, but not at all what was intended.
>
> What happened was that the original analog xclock in the default theme
> got pushed out to a place on my destop that is sort-of near to the center
> top of my screen (and it was rendered MUCH bigger than before) and the
> digital xclock got kind-of stuffed into the little box where the analog
> xclock formerly was (in the default theme)... except of course that the
> text of my new digital xclose could not fix in that small space, so it
> just got cut off after the first few (leftmost) characters.
>
> So, bottom line, I'm still hoping that someone will tell me how to get
> a digital xclock into the empty space in the default theme that sits
> below the xbiff icon thingy and the analog xclock.
>
> I can't imagine that this should be too awfully difficult, but I quite
> certainly have no idea how to do it properly.

Note that Fvwm doesn't have a default theme that includes xclock that
must be something your distro supplies.

xclock understands the regular xresources, either from the command line
or in the xrdb database:

To place xclock in the lower right:

xterm -geom -0-0

Or in your xresources:

xclock*geometry:                -0-0

-- 
Dan Espen