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authordakkar <dakkar@thenautilus.net>2015-06-02 16:16:36 +0100
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update to fvwm-crystal 3.2.3
This update is big: upstream has simplified and refactored everything, so I had to move stuff around a lot. I now rely much more on the overlay system, instead of adding custom files all over the place.
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Dakkar's ``fvwm-crystal`` settings
====================================
-I use a 2800x1050 desktop (two 20" LCD panels on a GeForce 6600), with
-a `slightly modified version`_ of the `TopLine` recipe. I also use a 5x5
-pages virtual desktop, and a Dvorak keyboard with valume keys (mapped
-to the proper keycodes in X11). My music player is `AmaroK`, and my
-desktop manager is `ROX`.
+I use a 3840x2160 desktop (a 4k display), with a `slightly modified
+version`_ of the `TopLine` recipe. I also use a 5x5 pages virtual
+desktop, and a Dvorak keyboard with volume keys (mapped to the proper
+keycodes in X11). My desktop manager is `ROX`.
-.. _`slightly modified version`: ../tree/recipes/TopLine
-
-Since my monitors can "pivot", I have further modified the recipe to
-handle rotating the displays. This needs help from the video card. See
-the section `Rotating the displays`_.
+.. _`slightly modified version`: ../tree/recipes/Dakkar
The recipe
==========
@@ -24,50 +19,25 @@ The main differences from the stock `TopLine` are:
- different desktop bindings
- larger thumbnails
- different behaviour of the edges
-- 2 identical pagers (one per physical screen)
-- geometries rewritten to use ``@g`` to work with `Xinerama`
-- each pager (and my "biff" terminal) is raised above all other
+- the pager (and my "biff" terminal) is raised above all other
windows if I keep the mouse pointer on it long enough
-- some functions added to handle `rotating the displays`_
+- no application button panel
The decoration
==============
-I have changed the `Clearlooks DeepSky` decoration_ to add a mini-icon
+I have changed the `MicroClear Default` decoration_ to add a mini-icon
as button 3.
-.. _decoration: ../tree/decorations/Dakkar/
-
-The colorsets
-=============
-
-Since I use tha `Gentoo` version of ``fvwm2``, it has a patch that
-allow fake transparency in the menus. Thus, I changed the
-`DarkDesktop` and `WhiteDesktop` colorsets_ to use this feature.
-
-.. _colorsets: ../tree/colorsets/
+.. _decoration: ../tree/decorations/Dakkar/Default
The bindings
============
-I redefined most keyboard bindings to my taste. Of particular interest
-may be the Music_ file, where I bind the volume controls to the volume
-keycodes, and the ``Music-GUI`` function to the "eject" keycode. I
-also bound most window manipulation functions to various combination
-of ``Alt`` and the numeric keypad (see the `Window-Control-Dakkar`_
-file)
+I redefined most keyboard bindings to my taste, `overriding some of
+the default ones`_.
-.. _Music: ../tree/components/bindings/Music
-.. _Window-Control-Dakkar: ../tree/components/bindings/Window-Control-Dakkar
-
-The preferences
-===============
-
-To be able to select `AmaroK` as a music player, and `amixer` as a
-mixer control, I created the `dakkar_Preferences`_ file, which adds
-them to the appropriate menus.
-
-.. _`dakkar_Preferences`: ../tree/components/desktop/dakkar_Preferences
+.. _`overriding some of the default ones`: ../tree/components/bindings/
The styles and icons
====================
@@ -79,108 +49,17 @@ and I added icons for ``xchat-2`` and ``skype``)
The functions
=============
-I redefined a couple of function in the Numpad_ to add the
-``AnyScreen`` option.
-
-.. _Numpad: ../tree/components/functions/Numpad
-
-Then I wrote the `Mixer-amixer`_ and `Music-amarok`_ files to interact
-with by chosen music programs.
-
-.. _`Mixer-amixer`: ../tree/components/functions/Mixer-amixer
-.. _`Music-amarok`: ../tree/components/functions/Music-amarok
-
-``amixer`` is a simple command-line mixer, and its integration was
-easy.
-
-`AmaroK` is a `KDE` application, and it's not straightforward to
-control. At the moment only "random", "repeat", "stop", "play/pause"
-and "show/hide" are implemented, all via ``dcop`` calls.
-
-The ``Music-GUI`` function is used to toggle the display of
-`AmaroK`, and also to start it: it the ``dcop`` calls fails, the
-``amarok`` command gets executed, launching the program.
-
-.. note:: `AmaroK` and `Trayer`
-
- For some not-really-clear-to-me reason, the tray icon of `AmaroK`
- is not displayed by `Trayer`, normally. To work around this
- problem, I have written the small ``amarok`` script, which sits in
- my ``~/bin`` directory (which is at the beginning of my
- ``$PATH``). Using this, the icon works as expected.
-
-I also tweaked a Perl script I found on the Web to create a menu for
-my ``screen`` sessions, see the `Screen-Menu`_ configuration file and
-the `fvwm-screen.pl`_ script.
+I tweaked a Perl script I found on the Web to create a menu for my
+``screen`` sessions, see the `Screen-Menu`_ configuration file and the
+`fvwm-screen.pl`_ script.
.. _`Screen-Menu`: ../tree/components/functions/Screen-Menu
.. _`fvwm-screen.pl`: ../tree/scripts/fvwm-screen.pl
-Finally, in the `Notify`_ file, I redefined the ``UrgencyFunc`` to pop
-up a notification via the dbus notification mechanism (using a `simple
+In the `Urgency-Hint`_ file, I redefined the ``UrgencyFunc`` to pop up
+a notification via the dbus notification mechanism (using a `simple
Perl script`_ which uses `Net::DBus`_).
-.. _Notify: ../tree/components/functions/Notify
+.. _Urgency-Hint: ../tree/components/functions/Urgency-Hint
.. _`simple Perl script`: ../tree/FvwmNotify.pm
-.. _`Net::DBus`: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/Net-DBus-0.33.5/
-
-Rotating the displays
-=====================
-
-This takes a little background.
-
-First of all, my ``/etc/X11/xorg.conf`` file has a ``Screen`` section
-like this::
-
- Section "Screen"
- Identifier "dual-nv"
- Device "nvidia"
- Monitor "LCD"
- DefaultDepth 24
- Option "TwinView" "true"
- Option "MetaModes" "DFP-0: 1400x1050 @1400x1050 +0+0, DFP-1: 1400x1050 @1400x1050 +1400+0"
- Option "RandRRotation" "on"
- Option "Xinerama" "on"
-
- SubSection "Display"
- ViewPort 0 0
- Depth 24
- Modes "1400x1050"
- EndSubSection
- EndSection
-
-This specifies that, normally, I use my displays horizontally, one to
-the right of the other.
-
-Then, in my `~/.xinirc`_, I add a second "MetaMode"::
-
- ./bin/nv-control-dpy --add-metamode \
- 'DFP-0: 1400x1050 @1400x1050 +0+1050, DFP-1: 1400x1050 @1400x1050 +0+0'
-
-The ``nv-control-dpy`` program can be found in the source tarball for
-the ``nvidia-settings`` program, in the ``samples`` subdirectory.
-
-You may be wondering: why adding a second MetaMode in this way, when
-you can specify both in the ``xorg.conf`` file? Good question. The
-answer is that, if you do it "the logical way", the always helpful
-NVidia drivers will tell the X server that you have a virtual screen
-whose size is the bounding box of the union of all MetaModes. Which in
-my case would mean that I'd have a lot of panning around, *very*
-irritating when you use multiple viewports. Adding the MetaMode after
-the startup of the X server avoids this issue.
-
-In the recipe, I have two functions to set landscape (normal) and
-portrait (vertical) orientation. They call ``xrandr`` to set the
-display orientation and size, and do some repositioning of the various
-things that need it:
-
-- a script instructs `ROX-Filer` to change its "pinboard" to the one
- with the proper layout (this is not optimal, but since I very rarely
- change the contents of my pinboard, works well enough for me)
-- `gkrellm2` and my "biff" terminal get moved to their proper
- positions during ``StartFunction``
-
-Maybe there's a samrter way to get the same result, but this works,
-and it only took an evening to set up.
-
-.. _`~/.xinirc`: ../tree/xinitrc
+.. _`Net::DBus`: https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::DBus