Yeah, the same happens with conky. Disabling double-buffering helps too smooth window movement a bit, but causes too much flickering in conky. Playing with the OpaqueMoveSize option helps some, too.
As a side note, I tried running gkrellm instead of conky and the windows in fvwm moved about much better.
Stonecrest–>
I have been playing around with your grey themed config. But I have run into a problem that I can’t seem to fix. After I start up Fvwm2 I get a black line towards the bottom of the screen (about 30px above the bottom alpha tint on the background). There are a couple of wierd things with that line, the first is no program can go on top of it (meaning that whenever I move a program window over it it goes under the line instead of over) I can resize the line and when I did an xkill on it, it killed it and the dock went with it. Also the time, weather and mpd controls are not showing up. I can run your config before this one just fine (Meaning before you did the theme colors). Can you give me some insight as to what I should be looking for to fix this?
Stonecrest, somehow the calendar script doesn’t work right for me.
This is what it looks like.
Asher, what resolution are you running? It sounds like you are running a resolution less than 1024x768 and so some of the controls are simply off the screen (or maybe scrunched together too closely in the dock so they aren’t showing up…?).
Also, I recently wrote a post about what that line is, see this post. I currently use the terminal’s -geometry argument to position the terminal, but I think that the actual position takes into account the terminal font you’re using. I should really move it to the top of the screen via fvwm, just haven’t gotten around to it yet…
Unless you’ve changed it, the script uses Colorset 3. Presumably the colorset you are using is making the text appear invisible…
Alright, this is much cleaner and is resolution independent. Edit ~/.fvwm/config and change
[code]DestroyFunc StartTerminal
AddToFunc StartTerminal
[code]DestroyFunc StartTerminal
AddToFunc StartTerminal
You can also tweak the “45” number as you want, it means that the terminal will be 45% of your screen’s height.
You can download the new file from the updated config.
i just wonder about those icons in dock are you changing them or something because when I’m adding new one they are not on the bottom but in the middle of the dock
Your new 24x24 icons have to be converted to a 48x48 canvas with the image moved to the bottom center of the new canvas. That will keep the image on the bottom of the dock.
Hi, Stonecrest… I just wanted to take a moment to say that you’ve done one heck of a job with this theme. It’s highly functional, it looks super, and all the coding is very nice, and tidy. Oh, and I can tell that you are a fellow ArchLinux user by the way you’ve kept it all so simple. 
Outstanding job, thanks for putting it all together!
cozar but to do it I need something like gimp or other program but can I do it using imagemagick? if yes how?
Hi, portman… I’ve only ever used Gimp for graphics creation and modifications, so I can’t really say for sure if ImageMagick will do it, but I’m betting it will.
You might be able to find some good info about it over at the ImageMagick forums:
I like the color themes you have added to your config. I myself was working on a black one when you grey version came out. 
Its much better than my pathetic attempts.
Your config is awesome.
For all of you that asked me about my 1240X1180 version of Stone’s config, I will be posting it shortly. I finally had time to clean it up and make it nice. There are some differences in my config than his: obviously the menus are different, I have gnome-settings-daemon run in the config(to make everything look pretty), and the dock at the bottom is different.
Also, I have added a pager to my config.
Actually before I post my config I have a couple of problems.
My cover art isn’t showing up at all. All of my music dirs have a cover.jpg in them, but it just shows up as “No Cover”. What am I doing wrong?
Also, I noticed a problem when I hit “num lock” on my keyboard. The windows won’t shade, and the focused window stays “focused” (as far as the coloring goes). If you click another window with num lock on it doesn’t change the colors to the “focused” colors. I hope i explained that clear enough.
Thanks for the kind words, ozar and others.
If you look in a directory of a song you tried to play, are there two .fvwm* hidden files? If the answer is yes, I think I know the problem (it’s been on my list of “improvements” for the mpd script for a while).
Edit: I went ahead and implemented the improvement that I suspect was the cause of your problem. Replace your mpdSongName script with this one and let me know if it helps.
Uncomment the IgnoreModifiers line in fvwm2rc.settings. I commented it out because I have a slowish machine and never use caps/num/scroll lock.
The num lock thing worked perfectly.
However, I checked the music dirs for hidden fvwm images and…nothing 
I even manually made my own using your same commands in the script and changed to the “updated” script file you just posted. I still got nothin. It just says “no cover” and when I click on it it gives me the name of the album at the top of the pop-up window but nothing else.
It sounds like you haven’t set your MusicPath variable correctly in fvwm2rc.variables. The MusicPath should match up with the “music_directory” path shown in /etc/mpd.conf. I’ve actually been thinking about just grabbing that path straight from the mpd.conf file so the user doesn’t have to enter it manually, but I’m not sure if there is a downside to that (i.e. would any user have their mpd.conf file elsewhere?).
Okay, try out this version. It only generates the thumbnail files if they don’t already exist (I was lazy about this before) and it no longer requires a $MusicPath variable to be set in fvwm2rc.varaibles, it grabs it from mpd.conf instead. I’d really encourage people to replace their script with this one because it’s lighter on resources, faster, and involves no outside tweaking.
Unless anyone has a problem with it, I’m going to start a new thread for this FvwmScript because I believe it’s finally complete.
StoneCrest –
I finally gave up and just downloaded your newest config and just refigured out all of my geometry settings. Low and behold everything is working now. No more mystery line at the bottom (it wasn’t the gameterm…still have no clue what it was) I must have fat fingered something when editing the two.
Now my question is how would I go about putting the mpd controls including coverart right next to the weather? Right now there is about a 30px gap between the two.
One more thing. I have been playing around with mrxvt for the gameterm. It provides a good mix between yaQuake console for KDE and the basic urxvt (tabbed consoles are so nice). I love it especially since I usually am ssh’d into 4 different boxes at any given moment.
Its still not working. Maybe one of you can take a look at all of my config files and help me figure out whats going on?
I would really appreciate the help.
filebox.vt.edu/users/wesgould/fvwm.tar.gz
(btw…i have no idea why the tar has an extra backup~ file for almost everything)
I am about to add a screen lock option to the exit menu. Im tired of having my roomate having access to my computer when im not in the room.
