I have been using Fvwm 3 for half a year and there’s something that’s bothering me. There’s no way to get a “border under title style” (that’s shown in the screenshot). What I mean is that, when using a plain title style (Flat), there’s no way to get the bottom part of the top border to go under the titlebar.
If this where possible, Fvwm could replicate the style of MacOS 9, Windows XP and others.
Solutions:
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I have been messing around with borders.c and geometry.c, based on the Border-Under-Title patch for Fvwm 2.x, and was able to replicate this. I’m not a good programmer, so I’m not able to create a propper patch, but this seems to be a realistic solution.
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Pixmap borders… Fvwm 3 can use a tiled pixmap for the borders. The borders can also use 8 separate colorsets for each of the border parts. Colorsets can use a pixmap. But when using BorderColorset with 8 colorsets, the colorset pixmaps aren’t used. If the borders could use pixmaps from the 8 colorsets, then setting the borderstyle to “Flat” would allow you to create fully pixmap borders, like in IceWM or PekWM.
In short, I would like Fvwm to be able to either have a native borderstyle where the bottom part of the top border goes under the titlebar, or for fully pixmap borders to be possible (like in IceWM) using colorset pixmaps or some other method. Thank you…
