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From: Blueparty on 8 Aug 2010 14:23 I like xdaliclock, but it has an annoying feature. It displays confirmation dialog when the close button is pushed. It also displays the same dialog when X session is being closed. I tried dclock, but it has the same annoying features. Is there any option, resource or something to make them terminate without dialog ? Without it I find them both unusable. Also tried asclock (without Afterstep), it closes without dialog, but I don't know how to change the font. Is there a way to change font ? B
From: J G Miller on 8 Aug 2010 14:51 On Sunday, August 8th, 2010 at 20:23:49h +0200, Blueparty complained: > I like xdaliclock, but it has an annoying feature. It displays > confirmation dialog when the close button is pushed. xdaliclock has no dialog menu and does not have a close button. Therefore you are presumably referring to the window manager provided close button. This prompts the question, which window manager are you using, since many window managers do not prompt for confirmation when pressing the close button. > I tried dclock, but it has the same annoying features. No dclock does not have these features either -- neither a dialog menu nor a close button. What you are seeing is a feature of the window manager. > Is there any option, resource or something to make them terminate > without dialog ? Please specify which window manager you are using. > Also tried asclock (without Afterstep), it closes without dialog, but I > don't know how to change the font. Is there a way to change font ? asclock does not use fonts to display the time or the date -- these are pixmap representations of an LED display for the time, and the text for the date are created from xpm pixmap files contained in the theme directories under /usr/share/asclock according to which theme you chose for asclock with the -theme flag.
From: blueparty on 9 Aug 2010 10:15 On Aug 8, 8:51 pm, J G Miller <mil...(a)yoyo.ORG> wrote: > On Sunday, August 8th, 2010 at 20:23:49h +0200, Blueparty complained: > > > I like xdaliclock, but it has an annoying feature. It displays > > confirmation dialog when the close button is pushed. > > xdaliclock has no dialog menu and does not have a close button. > > Therefore you are presumably referring to the window manager > provided close button. This prompts the question, which > window manager are you using, since many window managers > do not prompt for confirmation when pressing the close > button. > > > I tried dclock, but it has the same annoying features. > > No dclock does not have these features either -- neither > a dialog menu nor a close button. What you are seeing is > a feature of the window manager. > > > Is there any option, resource or something to make them terminate > > without dialog ? > > Please specify which window manager you are using. > > > Also tried asclock (without Afterstep), it closes without dialog, but I > > don't know how to change the font. Is there a way to change font ? > > asclock does not use fonts to display the time or the date -- these are pixmap > representations of an LED display for the time, and the text for the > date are created from xpm pixmap files contained in the theme directories > under > > /usr/share/asclock > > according to which theme you chose for asclock with the -theme flag. Thanks for the answer. I am sorry to reply from another account, but there is apparently something wrong with my news server, because your message has not arrived yet. I understand that the caption and the buttons are provided by window manager, but still don't know how to help myself. My window manager is IceWM. B
From: unruh on 9 Aug 2010 10:24 On 2010-08-09, blueparty <partner50449476(a)vansoftcorp.com> wrote: > On Aug 8, 8:51?pm, J G Miller <mil...(a)yoyo.ORG> wrote: >> On Sunday, August 8th, 2010 at 20:23:49h +0200, Blueparty complained: >> >> > I like xdaliclock, but it has an annoying feature. It displays >> > confirmation dialog when the close button is pushed. >> >> xdaliclock has no dialog menu and does not have a close button. >> >> Therefore you are presumably referring to the window manager >> provided close button. ?This prompts the question, which >> window manager are you using, since many window managers >> do not prompt for confirmation when pressing the close >> button. >> >> > I tried dclock, but it has the same annoying features. >> >> No dclock does not have these features either -- neither >> a dialog menu nor a close button. ?What you are seeing is >> a feature of the window manager. >> >> > Is there any option, resource or something to make them terminate >> > without dialog ? >> >> Please specify which window manager you are using. >> >> > Also tried asclock (without Afterstep), it closes without dialog, but I >> > don't know how to change the font. Is there a way to change font ? >> >> asclock does not use fonts to display the time or the date -- these are pixmap >> representations of an LED display for the time, and the text for the >> date are created from xpm pixmap files contained in the theme directories >> under >> >> ? ? ? ? ? /usr/share/asclock >> >> according to which theme you chose for asclock with the -theme flag. > > Thanks for the answer. I am sorry to reply from another account, but > there is apparently something wrong with my news server, because > your message has not arrived yet. > > I understand that the caption and the buttons are provided by window > manager, but still don't know how to help myself. My window manager is > IceWM. What it means is that the problem has nothing to do with what clock you use. Searching around for some magic colck program is a waste of time. The problem lies elsewhere. Now that you have told people what manager you use, you might get some useful replies. Certainly I have never seen your problem under KDE. > > B
From: J G Miller on 9 Aug 2010 12:02
On Monday, August 9th, 2010 at 07:15:16h -0700, Blue Party explained: > My window manager is IceWM. I do not have IceWM running right at the moment, but it tends to almost always ask for confirmation when the close button is used to kill a running process. I am not currently aware that you can use a configuration option to suppress this confirmation dialog, but ... On checking the documentation in /usr/share/doc/icewm/html, there is a possibility of suppressing the dialog. The same documentation is available at at <http://www.icewm.ORG/manual/icewm-14.html> forcedClose=0 if set to 1 and the application had not registered WM_DELETE_WINDOW, a close confirmation dialog won't be offered upon closing the window. So in your winoptions file, you need to make entries dclock.forcedClose: 1 xdaliclock.forcedClose: 1 and so long as these programs have not registered WM_DELETE_WINDOW, you will no longer be bothered by the confirmation dialog for these applications anymore after restarting icewm. |