FVWM: Icon Placement problem

[Stephan Wenders]

Hi there,

we are using fvwm (version 2.4.19) under solaris instead of dtwm
with the common desktop environment.

Last week I got to know a problem with the icon placement.

Our users start a lot of applications and iconify some of them.
Then they arrange the icons on the desktop the way they like.

Problem:
If you raise an application and move another icon to the old place
of the icon of the raised application and then iconify the
raised application again the icon is placed at the next free position.
So far so good...
But if you do this once again the icon is NOT placed at the next free
position but covers the moved one,
so that you get a problem in finding the covered icon.

Is this fixed in a later release ?

Best regards
Stephan Wenders

mailto:***@hkm.de


Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH, Ehinger Str. 200, D-47259 Duisburg
Geschäftsführung: Peter Gasse, Dr. Rolf Höffken, Dr. Clemens Stewing
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dipl.-Betriebswirt Wolfgang Eging
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Duisburg
Eintragung im Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Duisburg HRB 4716
http://www.hkm.de

[Thomas Adam]

Post by Stephan Wenders
Hi there,
we are using fvwm (version 2.4.19) under solaris instead of dtwm
with the common desktop environment.

Use 2.6.1, please.

Then see if this problem remains.

-- Thomas Adam

[Stephan Wenders]

Post by Thomas Adam

Post by Stephan Wenders
Hi there,
we are using fvwm (version 2.4.19) under solaris instead of dtwm
with the common desktop environment.

Use 2.6.1, please.
Then see if this problem remains.
-- Thomas Adam

Hi Thomas,

the problem still remains in 2.6.1.


Stephan Wenders


Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH, Ehinger Str. 200, D-47259 Duisburg
Geschäftsführung: Peter Gasse, Dr. Rolf Höffken, Dr. Clemens Stewing
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dipl.-Betriebswirt Wolfgang Eging
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Duisburg
Eintragung im Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Duisburg HRB 4716
http://www.hkm.de

[Thomas Adam]

Post by Stephan Wenders

Post by Thomas Adam

Post by Stephan Wenders
Hi there,
we are using fvwm (version 2.4.19) under solaris instead of dtwm
with the common desktop environment.

Use 2.6.1, please.
Then see if this problem remains.
-- Thomas Adam

Hi Thomas,
the problem still remains in 2.6.1.

I'm not surprised. I don't think it's a problem either, rather it's
designed that way, as icon positions are remembered between successive
iconifications.

You can automate this process if you so wish by binding the action of
"PlaceAgain icon" to some event -- be it iconify or deiconify via FvwmEvent.
So for example:

DestroyModuleConfig FE-icons: *
*FE-icons: deiconify SomeFunction

AddToFunc StartFunction I Module FvwmEvent FE-icons

DestroyFunc SomeFunction
AddToFunc SomeFunction I All (CurrentPage, Iconic) PlaceAgain Icon

-- Thomas Adam