FVWM: Telling fvwm to not use the top left 124x1152 even for maximized windows

[Thomas Glanzmann]

Hello,
I broke my laptop screen and until my replacement display arrives, I
would like to instruct fvwm not use the top left 124x1152 pixels. Could
someone tell me what is the best way to obtain it? At the same time I
use one fvwm function for every window:

AddToFunc FullScreen
+ I ThisWindow Maximize
+ I ThisWindow (!Maximized) WarpToWindow -5p -5p

In order to get everything fullscreen.

See screenshot: Loading Image...

The blue area should not be used.

Cheers,
Thomas

[Thomas Glanzmann]

Hello Thomas,

I would like to instruct fvwm not use the top left 124x1152 pixels.

Use EWMHBaseStruts.

thanks a lot. I put that in my FullScreen function and it works like a
charm:

AddToFunc FullScreen
+ I EWMHBaseStruts 144 0 0 0
+ I ThisWindow Maximize
+ I ThisWindow (!Maximized) WarpToWindow -5p -5p

Happy new year and thanks a again for the hint and function.

Cheers,
Thomas

[Thomas Glanzmann]

Hello Jaimos,

This is a setting that doesn't need to be run in the function, as it
only needs to be set once. Once this is set, this changes the behavior
of Maximize and placement functions.

I tried that first, but that didn't work for me. I put it in my .fvwm2rc
config at the top:

EWMHBaseStruts 144 0 0 0

I also tried:

Style * EWMHBaseStruts 144 0 0 0

And reloaded fvwm2, new windows where still fullscreen. I'm running the
debian stable fvwm2 version:

fvwm 2.6.5 compiled on Nov 14 2013 at 13:45:35
Debian: fvwm 2.6.5.ds-3

Find my .fvwm2rc here: https://pbot.rmdir.de/HvZifRKhJuAx5HqVKScPEw

Cheers,
Thomas

[Jaimos Skriletz]

Post by Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Jaimos,

This is a setting that doesn't need to be run in the function, as it
only needs to be set once. Once this is set, this changes the behavior
of Maximize and placement functions.

I tried that first, but that didn't work for me. I put it in my .fvwm2rc
EWMHBaseStruts 144 0 0 0

That is all you need. You don not need to run this from the function
each time. You must have something overwriting this setting.

Post by Thomas Glanzmann
Style * EWMHBaseStruts 144 0 0 0

EWMHBaseSTruts is not a Style, read the man page if you are unsure how
to use it.

Post by Thomas Glanzmann
Find my .fvwm2rc here: https://pbot.rmdir.de/HvZifRKhJuAx5HqVKScPEw

This is not complete, you have a Read ~./fvwm2rc-local (well you
should but you use PipeRead and cat, just use Read). You also have
some other things you don't need but that is beyond this thread.

If the line is not working it is because you override it somewhere in
your config file and putting it in the function sets it back. You
shouldn't need that. When fvwm loads, use FvwmConsole and enter in
that EWMHBaseStruts command into the console, it should work. This
shows that you have something in your local config that is overriding
the setting.

Running that command each time you maximize a window is not needed
unless your configuration is constantly resetting the EWMHBaseStruts

jaimos

[Dominik Vogt]

Post by Jaimos Skriletz

Post by Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Jaimos,

This is a setting that doesn't need to be run in the function, as it
only needs to be set once. Once this is set, this changes the behavior
of Maximize and placement functions.

I tried that first, but that didn't work for me. I put it in my .fvwm2rc
EWMHBaseStruts 144 0 0 0

That is all you need. You don not need to run this from the function
each time. You must have something overwriting this setting.

Post by Thomas Glanzmann
Style * EWMHBaseStruts 144 0 0 0

Or just use something like

+ i thiswindow (!maximized) resizemovemaximize -152p -28p 144p 0p
+ i testrc (nomatch) thiswindow maximize off

Post by Jaimos Skriletz
EWMHBaseSTruts is not a Style,

What? Should have paid more attention when this stuff was
written. Got to fix this some time.

Post by Jaimos Skriletz
read the man page if you are unsure how
to use it.

Post by Thomas Glanzmann
Find my .fvwm2rc here: https://pbot.rmdir.de/HvZifRKhJuAx5HqVKScPEw

Ciao

Dominik ^_^ ^_^

[Dominik Vogt]

Post by Dominik Vogt

Post by Jaimos Skriletz
EWMHBaseSTruts is not a Style,

What? Should have paid more attention when this stuff was
written. Got to fix this some time.

Curious. Why? What benefit would it have to be a style?

Flexibility, as always.

If it's about
applying size limits to certain windows, we already have a number of different
ways to specify that.

Everything that affects windows affects either a window's state or
it's style. We've spent a lot of time to eradicate global window
settings; the EwmhBaseStruts command is an anachronism, imposing
artificial limitations on windows when it could be expressed as

Style * EwmhBaseStruts a b c d

as well.

Making it per-screen is a better idea (I've a patch for that in an older CVS
tree, probably on Github).

That doesn't rule out making it a style.

EWMHBaseStruts is about screen edges, not windows.

It's about areas where windows are not to be placed, so it's
clearly about windows.

Don't go perturbing this option.

It should be deprecated and made a style instead (or possibly a
collection of styles), like everything else related to windows.

Ciao

Dominik ^_^ ^_^