FvwmPager ballon and text color

Configuration General Questions
1

In the recent topic about ballon colorsets @somiaj wrote:

you (@nohara) cannot have the border color be black and the text color of the window be white.

I want to check if this wiki FvwmPager is still valid.

Color names can be used to configure: Fore, Back, HiFore, HiBack, WindowFore, WindowBack, FocusFore, FocusBack, BalloonFore, BalloonBack, and BallonBorderColor.

Example:

*FvwmPager: BalloonBorderColor blue   ## balloon window border
*FvwmPager: BalloonFore red    ## text in balloon window
2

The BalloonBorderColor options still exist (read the manual page or try things out).

But the balloon windows control the color of the popup text that appears and has nothing to do with my comment, which was about the colors used by the mini windows. There is no way to make the text and border different colors for the mini windows.

3

I thought ballon meant mini windows. For popup text, it’s straightforward.

*FvwmPager: SmallFont "xft:Sans:size=8:antialias=True"
*FvwmPager: BalloonFont "xft:Sans:size=8:antialias=True"
*FvwmPager: BalloonFore Red
*FvwmPager: BalloonBack Blue
*FvwmPager: BalloonBorderColor White
*FvwmPager: Balloons All

ballon

4

Yea, naming in fvwm isn’t always the best. Here the original author called the windows that popup temporarily when you mouse over a mini window ‘balloon’ windows.

Though my response was into the screenshots shared by the user, which they were clearly referencing the mini window, not the balloon windows.