The official name of the "coordinate box"

[GJones]

I mean that little box that appears when you move a window, showing the window’s coordinates. What’s it called in the Fvwm documentation? I want to prettify it, but I don’t know precisely what to look for in the man page.

[ryo-san]

Hi,

It is the “geometry hint” or “geometry window” or “feedback window”, but i can’ t find anything usefull yet through manpages.

You will be able to apply a colorset on it with :

Defaultcolorset N

but it will affect any window without colors/colorsets assigned.

Feel free to post here if you find anything more specific , it could help other people.

Edit : here the relevant part :

31.2.7. DefaultColors

DefaultColors [foreground] [background]

DefaultColors sets the default foreground and background colors used in miscellaneous windows created by fvwm, for example in the geometry feedback windows during a move or resize operation. If you do not want to change one color or the other, use - as its color name. To revert to the built-in default colors omit both color names. Note that the default colors are not used in menus, window titles or icon titles.

Defaultcolorset got similar behaviour.

[GJones]

DefaultColors worked, thank you very much!