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Re: Please help me choose a window manager

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Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
> root <NoEMail@home.org> wrote:
>> > If you are in fact using fvwm2 (this is likely, but only you can
>> > confirm), then you are likely looking for the fvwm2 extension
>> > modules [1] FvwmIconMan and/or FvwmTaskBar.
>> > 
>> >   man FvwmIconMan
>> >   man FvwmTaskBar
> 
>> For completeness I will read these man pages to bring up some useable
>> (for me) fvwm(2) display. Thanks for the suggestion.
> 
>> Right off the bat I got this from man FvwmTaskbar:
>> BUGS
>>        At present the FvwmTaskBar works only with fvwm95.
> 
>> So that makes fvwm2 off the table.
> 
> What is the age of your fvwm2 installation?
> 
> The man page for FvwmTaskBar that ships with Slackware 13.37 says this
> under BUGS:
> 
>        There is a bug report that FvwmTaskBar doesn't work well with
>        auto hide turned on.
> 
> And there is exactly zero mention of fvwm95.  And test starting
> FvwmTaskBar, I get a win95 style task bar along the bottom of my
> screen.

How did you test start TaskBar, what did you add to .fvwm2rc?

> 
> For yours to mention fvwm95 implies it is older than the version
> shipped with Slackware 13.37.  Which is fvwm2.4.20.

My fvwm package is what comes with 14.1 Slack 64:
fvwm-2.6.5-x86_64-6
I presume the man page corresponds.

My man page for fvwm(2) runs to over 9000 lines.

The man fvwm does talk about TaskBar but also adds taskbar
compliant to the description, as if there are versions of
fvmw(2) that do not support a task bar.

This .fvwm2rc gives what I want, but no taskbar:

Exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -geometry 100x37+0+100 -sl 500 -rv -sb -fn -*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* -ms yellow
Exec    /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -geometry 185x50+0+37 \
-sl 500 -rv -sb -fn 10x20 -title "secondary xterm"  &
Exec    /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -geometry 185x50+0+37 \
-sl 500 -rv -sb -fn 10x20 -title "secondary xterm"  &
Exec    /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -geometry 185x50+0+37 \
-sl 500 -rv -sb -fn 10x20 -title "secondary xterm"  &
Exec    /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -geometry 185x50+0+37 \
-sl 500 -rv -sb -fn 10x20 -title "secondary xterm"  &
Exec    /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -geometry 185x50+0+37 \
-sl 500 -rv -sb -fn 10x20 -title "secondary xterm"  &
> 

Further discussion with Nvidia more surely confirms the problem
I am having is caused by the driver. For my graphics card
the latest Nvidia driver is 361.42 and I have both the
32 bit version and 64 bit versions of this driver. The
32 bit version works with Slack 14.1 32 bit, while the
64 bit version does not work with Slack 14.1 64 bit.

I would still like to know how to bring up a task bar
under fvwm. Please show me what you added to your
rc file.
Thanks

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Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-13 16:42 +0000
  Re: Please help me choose a window manager notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2016-04-13 17:10 +0000
    Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-13 17:53 +0000
      Re: Please help me choose a window manager notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2016-04-13 18:24 +0000
        Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-13 20:20 +0000
          Re: Please help me choose a window manager notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2016-04-13 20:42 +0000
          Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-13 21:31 +0000
            Re: Please help me choose a window manager notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2016-04-13 23:29 +0000
  Re: Please help me choose a window manager Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-13 17:26 +0000
    Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-13 19:01 +0000
      Re: Please help me choose a window manager Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-13 21:25 +0000
        Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-13 21:57 +0000
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            Re: Please help me choose a window manager Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-13 22:40 +0000
            Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-14 01:20 +0000
          Re: Please help me choose a window manager Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-13 22:39 +0000
            Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-14 01:28 +0000
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                Re: Please help me choose a window manager Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-14 11:56 +0000
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    Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-14 03:20 +0000
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    Re: Please help me choose a window manager root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-14 14:45 +0000
      Re: Please help me choose a window manager Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-14 16:28 +0000
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