Re: panel & FvwmPager problem:

[Toshio Kuratomi <badger prtr-13 ucsc edu>]

Well after staring at panel code for a while and getting nowhere, I
stared at the FvwmButtons man page for a while and found a workaround.
Use something similar to the following to invoke FvwmPager in FvwmButtons:

*FvwmButtons(2x1,Swallow (Respawn) "FvwmPager" "FvwmPager 0 1")

The important option is the (Respawn) which gets tells FvwmButtons to
re-run FvwmPager if it dies.

Hopefully this will be my last posting about Fvwm and the panel unless I
find some real fixes....

-Toshio
On Wed, 13 May, 1998 at 10:10:39PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi set free these words:
> It would appear I was overly optimistic when I said the pager
> could be put into the panel via FvwmButtons last -- When the panel
> swallows FvwmButtons _on_startup_, the FvwmButtons module gets placed
> in the panel, but the FvwmPager module inside gets left blank.
> 
> Removing that blank Swallowed App., starting a new FvwmPager and a new
> FvwmButtons and swallowing that will work fine....
> 
> How does swallowing a module at startup differ from swallowing
> it by selecting the appropriate menu item?
> 
> Also -- I just attempted to place xcb (XCutBuffer) into the panel --
> The panel expanded to take up the whole screen (actually, it might have been
> more than the whole screen.  My right and left edges were apparently the two
> bars by which you can Explicitly hide and unhide the panel, but I couldn't see
> any arrows on them.)  I think the panel allowed xcb to grow to take over the
> entire inner area of the panel.
> 
> This may be related to my report that certain programs, when placed in the
> panel, have a very small (perhaps one pixel) size.  Somehow these programs and
> the panel are negotiating a resize when they are swallowed that is not far
> from nice....
> 
> -Toshio
> -- 
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