I'm not sure if anyone will know this, but it's finally time to try
and figure out what's going on. Besides, it's been a while since I
abused by blog for free tech support. :-)
For ages, I've had a heavily customized ~/.fvwm2rc file that makes my "desktop" workspace suit me quite well. It sure beat the bloat that is GNOME/KDE and such.
I have this bit in my file:
# Button 2 + Alt/Meta in Window iconifies it. Mouse 2 W M Iconify
which means I can "alt + middle click" in a widow to iconify (or "minimize" it. For a long time, when I did this, the icon would end up on the desktop directly under my mouse. I got quite good at placing icons exactly where I thought I'd want them.
Then, maybe 1.5 years ago, apt-get installed a new version of fvwm2 and it changed the behavior in a slight but annoying way. When I iconify a window, fvwm2 puts the icon near the upper-left of the screen and I then have to manually drag it to the location I'd like it to stay.
Of course, I looked thru the relevant change log at the time but didn't find much that seemed relevant. And it's been a while since I tried to find out what might have done it.
Anyway, I know there are at least a few die-hard fvwm2 users around here. Maybe? Anyone know if there's a workaround or solution for this?
Posted by jzawodn at December 01, 2003 03:04 AM
IconBox none
if that doesn't get it, then try this instead:
Style * IconBox
Enjoy
Just out of curiosity, could you post your ~/.fvwm2rc file?
I've not had much experience with fvwm, but I did use twm for a while. twm had an IconRegion setting that controlled where minimised icons ended up. I believe fvwm was inspired by twm; maybe it has the same feature?
