If you had problems with it, try the updated Weather script in the new config. Let me know of any problems, etc.
Now it works (I get the nice icons and text) except that I can’t get the temperatures converted to C.
cheers
Oops… change the TempUnits variable to “m” instead of “C”. Apparently the options are “m” (metric → Celsius) and “s” (Fahrenheit).
Hello Stonecrest,
I’m trying to use your very nice calendar, but
Everytime the calendar appears, it’s not where I want it to! (always starts on left top of screen). Setting
WindowPosition x yDoesn’t work at all, is there some kind of way to overwrite it? I tried with Style * NoPPosition and others but no avail. I’m sure you can fix this 
Hi Jefklak… sorry but I have no idea what would be causing this, WindowPosition X Y works for me. One thing you can do is try adding “BugOpts ExplainWindowPlacement” to your config and then looking at the fvwm output when you open the Calender. Maybe it will clue you in.
For example, mine says:
[FVWM][__explain_placement]: placed new window 0x1c00001 'Calendar':
desk 0 (current desk)
current page
position 881 630 (used program specified position)
Nice weather applet! I’m doing a similar thing using Yahoo Weather RSS feed. It is actually working perfectly but Yahoo has some bugs: the date they show is not my local date but their local date - yet they show my local weekday! That gives some very bad results. I allready complained about the bugs. But the weather info is still valid. Parsing was not quite easy as I had no idea how to find a pattern in a string and remove everything else from the string. The problem is that the contents of the string vary.
It also seems the weather.com is iving more info than Yahoo.
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Is it legal to use the source you use (xoap.weather.com) without making any registrations or contracts? The feed works even without the key and par fields.
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Where did you get the weather icon set?
I used adesklets’ weather desklet as the foundation of my FvwmScript (it provided the icons and uses this xoap.weather.com url). So take it as you wish 
Ok, thanks for the info. I think one should basically sign up here. Let’s see what happens if I keep on using the service without the needed registration 
In my opinion weather service for personal desktop usage should be free without any registrations… After all, the same data can be aquired in many ways just by parsing web pages.
It would be nice to know where the icons are from - originally. They look very nice but they still lack a few icons. Here is the description of various icons/codes.
Okay, last update on the Weather FvwmScript. If you’re updating from a previous version, copy over the Weather script, the Weather.sh file, and the images/weather/.unknown.png file. The FvwmScript is now much more robust and less buggy. In fact, dare I say it’s working perfectly? 
The only bug that I have noticed is that the current day’s temperature sometimes comes back as N/A (maybe after a certain time of the day?) but I don’t know that there’s much I can do about it.
Updated the Calendar FvwmScript… you can now use any font you want instead of just fixed-space fonts. It also highlights the current day and you can tweak colors any way you want. Here are some gray-scale examples (because I lack creativity):
in fvwm2rc.variables, you just need to set three colors
# Calendar
SetEnv DayNameColor #f1eee0 # Background color for day names
SetEnv DayNumColor #f1eee0 # Background color for day numbers
SetEnv DayHiColor gray75 # Background color for highlighted (current) day
Hi. I’m new to FVWM, but I really liked your config so I thought I’d give it a try. I unzipped the archive and moved the folder to ~/.fvwm. However, when I try to log in using this theme, I just get an hourglass cursor and can do nothing. The background is a solid color with a white bar at the bottom (maybe 70-100 pixels high). I see the little icons in the low left corner and the clock and media controller buttons in the lower right. Upon login, a terminal window does appear. I can’t click or type anything (in Eterm or elsewhere), and when I press F1, it quits and returns me to GDM.
I’m using Gentoo, all updated to the latest stable releases. I installed the mpd and associated programs like you mentioned in the README. I don’t even know where to begin, or how to take a screenshot in this state. Can you think of anything that I might be doing wrong, or any way I can give you more information to help me?
Thanks.
Try modifying your .xinitrc line to say “exec fvwm 2>~/.fvwm/.fvwm_log”. Then startup fvwm and see if there’s anything useful in the log file. Hopefully that will shed some light…
Hi stonecast, I have also tried to use your nice looking config. I get the weather, time and music scripts to work. And after some modification, also the wallpaper. (had to specifically insert grass.png in the startup function where wallpaper.png was before…) But the dock is totally transparent, not semitransparent like in your screenshots. How come it doesnt look like on your screenhots? (tough question, I know) I have tried other configs as well, I never get the transparent stuff to work. It is depressing. 
I am using Slackware 10.2, Xorg 6.8.2. And a recent compiled Fvwm 2.5.14.
Ah, I got some transparency by adding tint to the colorset on the dock. Sorry, I am very new to fvwm configs and their commands, I have just started to read about it. Anyways, most things with your config are working now. Need to get that F1 terminal to look nicer though. And make the prompt (where you insert the text) appear the bottom of the shell, now it appears hidden at the top.
Another question though, when I click on the time or the weather, there is a little delay before the windows appear. Also, when clicking to minimize to thumbnails, there is also a little delay. Is this something I can change, making the actions instant? Or is it just the time needed for the calculations?
Mackan and its0ry - Sorry, it turns out that I had the path wrong for the wallpaper, that’s why you both had problems with it. Mackan, you’ll want to set the wp back to wallpaper.png and remove the tinting that you added (tinting is automatically added to the wallpaper.png file).
All you have to do is change this line in fvwm2rc.variables:
SetEnv wallpaper $[ImagePath]/wp/grass.pngto this:
SetEnv wallpaper $[FVWM_USERDIR]/images/wp/grass.pngWhen you start fvwm, that image is resized and tinting is automatically added to it, and then it’s set to your desktop background. Or you can just download the updated config…
stonecrest,
I downloaded the new config and the background appeared, but I still had the same problem. I did the log like you said, and it was because MPD wasn’t running. I set up MPD, and now it seems to work. Three things though:
- When I press F1, it quits. Is this intended? How can I disable this?
- The cursor is always an hourglass.
- In the log, it says at the beginning:
It is a great looking config, and I’ll have to play with it more. Thanks!
Issues 1 and 2 stem from the same problem: presumably that it’s having trouble executing your terminal. If you specified your own terminal, make sure you have the right command for it. If you haven’t touched it, you’ll either want to install rxvt-unicode or edit the fvwm2rc.variables file and enter your own terminal. Note that if your terminal doesn’t support the -name option, you might have to tweak some more. Sorry for not making this clearer, I’m going to update the README file to reflect this.
Issue 3 can safely be ignored, although I’ll fix it so that it doesn’t spit out the warnings.
Hope that helps
stonecrest, just for information, your config is working nicely now for me. One thing I do wonder about though, is why moving windows in fvwm is so laggy… I never have this problem in KDE or gnome or XFCE.
Good to hear I don’t know why you’re finding it’s laggy, sorry. I actually have found the opposite to be true, that other WMs/DEs lag (i.e. you see the remnants of windows’ previous positions on the root window) while fvwm does not. Do you find this is true with the default fvwm config (meaning, move your ~/.fvwm to ~/.fvwm.bak) as well?
Hello! I am very pleased by ur config but I can’t use binary scripts u made.
As I’m quite a newbie of linux could u tell me how to compile them for my ppc architecture?
Thank u,
great job!