portman's new config

progression of my config

Cool!

Could you share the config settings for your window decoration? And which terminal do you use, and how to you get this terminal transparency?

I will put the config as as I can. The terminal that I use is aterm and about the transparency you can read in the manual for that specific terminal.

Well, I use aterm too, but I am just a bit too lazy to see which things I have to set to get a terminal looking like yours. I like your one very much and think it would be the simplest way if you would just give me your config. :wink:

Looking forward to the other config parts!

My aterm:
aterm -tn Eterm -tr -tint grey +rv -sh 45 -fn"-misc-fixed-medium----12--75---*-iso8859-2" +sb

if you want thats my bash prompt:
PS1="[\033[0;36m]-[[\033[0;32m]\u@\h[\033[0;36m]]- -[[\033[0m]\w[\033[0;36m]]-\n[\033[0;33m]$ [\033[0m]"

I will add few more things to my config and I will release it

Thanks a lot for your terminal settings! I really appreciate it!

a little update:
clear desktop:

busy desktop:

I’ve been playing with my fvwm config and I changed the title bar:
active:

inactive:

as you can see the close button changes… It has been made in vectors.

Hehe, you are living in the future … Firefox 2.0. :unamused:

of course

i’m almost done with my config so probably I will release it soon

The thing I can’t figure out is how to get the degree sign to show up after the temps… getting this error:

UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0xc2 in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

I’ve finally released my fvwm config. Here it is:

MY FVWM CONFIG

Woohoo! Thanks for showing me your config! I’ve looked at it and found parts very valuable for me!

However, the main reason I wanted the config has not been resolved by your release; my window decor looks much better now, but I have some problems with this config:

Colorset 14 fg white, bg black

DestroyDecor WindowDecor
AddToDecor   WindowDecor
+ TitleStyle LeftJustified Height 18
+ TitleStyle Inactive (Colorset 14 -- Flat) Active (Colorset 14 -- Flat)
+ ButtonStyle All Inactive (Colorset 14 -- Flat)
+ ButtonStyle All Active (Colorset 14 -- Flat)
+ ButtonStyle All -- UseTitleStyle

+ ButtonStyle 2 ActiveUp Vector 4 30x30@3 60x60@3 60x30@4 30x60@3 -- Flat
+ ButtonStyle 2 ActiveDown Vector 4 30x30@3 60x60@3 60x30@4 30x60@3 -- Flat
+ ButtonStyle 2 Inactive Vector 4 30x30@3 60x60@3 60x30@4 30x60@3 -- Flat
+ ButtonStyle 4 ActiveUp Vector 7 30x30@3 30x60@3 60x60@3 60x30@3 30x30@3 30x35@3 60x35@3 -- Flat
+ ButtonStyle 4 ActiveDown Vector 7 30x30@3 30x60@3 60x60@3 60x30@3 30x30@3 30x35@3 60x35@3 -- Flat
+ ButtonStyle 4 Inactive Vector 7 30x30@3 30x60@3 60x60@3 60x30@3 30x30@3 30x35@3 60x35@3 -- Flat
+ ButtonStyle 6 ActiveUp Vector 5 30x60@3 60x60@3 60x50@3 30x50@3 30x60@3 -- Flat
+ ButtonStyle 6 ActiveDown Vector 5 30x60@3 60x60@3 60x50@3 30x50@3 30x60@3 -- Flat
+ ButtonStyle 6 Inactive Vector 5 30x60@3 60x60@3 60x50@3 30x50@3 30x60@3 -- Flat

The problems:

  • I can’t see the window title of the active window because its font is too dark. How can I set it brighter?
  • The window buttons don’t use the color of the title bar, although I’ve set the UseTitleStyle option.

Any ideas?

(and yes, I’ve looked at the man page!)

if you are using my config check in the fvwm2rc.setting over there specify the colorset for fonts

Thanks for your pointer - I think I’ve figured out the solution to my first problem!

I’ve just solved the second problem too - well, almost, but I’m going to do the remaining stuff tomorrow. :wink:

ok I will look for it but I can’t promise that I still have it ;]

sorry i deleted it because i’ve had problems with clickin’ them

Do you remember how you made the window title background on the first screenshot? Because I currently have a title background with one color, and it doesn’t look as good as yours. Did you use a pixmap or something like that?

if you are talking about the very very first screenshot then I used pixmap on the rest I didn;t

feel free to add any comments and propositions

a little upgrade:

mostly i’ve just changed the menu all the rest is the same but maybe you haven’t seen my title in action :>