FvwmScroll(1)

Okay bestie, welcome to the FvwmScroll(1) page from the General Commands Manual 🎀✨ This one's all about the scroll-bar module, and it's giving main character energy 💅

✨ NAME ✨

FvwmScroll - the FVWM scroll-bar module 🦋

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

FvwmScroll is spawned by fvwm, so no command line invocation will work. You literally cannot type it into your terminal and expect it to vibe 💀

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so, if the module wasn't launched from inside a window context in Fvwm, FvwmScroll asks you to pick a target window first. Then it slaps scroll bars onto that window so it eats way less desktop space. Space-saving slay 🫶

It reads the same .fvwmrc file that fvwm reads when it starts up, and it looks for lines like *FvwmScrollFore green 🌈

Warning bestie: don't use FvwmScroll on windows that move or resize themselves, and don't use it on windows that set the WM_COLORMAP_WINDOWS property 🙈 Windows with a private colormap are totally fine though ✨

🎀 COPYRIGHTS 🎀

FvwmScroll, and the whole concept for hooking this module up to the Window Manager, are original work by Robert Nation 👑

The copyright line is Copyright 1994, Robert Nation. There are no guarantees, no warranties, and no anything else, provided or implied, whatsoever. Use this program at your own risk 💀 You can use it for any purpose at all, as long as the copyright stays intact.

🧚 INITIALIZATION 🧚

During initialization, FvwmScroll will eventually search a configuration file that describes the colors to use. It's the same file fvwm used during initialization, so no new file to hunt for 🌸

Also, if the FvwmScroll executable gets linked to another name (ie ln -s FvwmScroll MoreScroll), then another module called MoreScroll can be started with a completely different configuration than FvwmScroll. You just change the keyword FvwmScroll to MoreScroll 🧚‍♀️ Two scroll-bar modules, one iconic duo 👯

🦋 INVOCATION 🦋

You can invoke FvwmScroll by binding the action Module FvwmScroll x y to a menu or a key-stroke in the .fvwmrc file. The parameters x and y are integers that describe the horizontal and vertical window size reduction 📐

Fvwm will search the directory specified in the ModulePath configuration option to attempt to locate FvwmScroll. Nothing actually stops you from launching FvwmScroll at start-up time, but you probably don't want to 🙃

⭐ CONFIGURATION OPTIONS ⭐

FvwmScroll reads the same .fvwmrc file as fvwm, and looks for lines as listed below:

• *FvwmScrollFore color — tells the module to use color instead of grey for the scroll bars themselves 🩶
• *FvwmScrollBack color — tells the module to use color instead of black for the window background 🖤

💀 BUGS 💀

Heads up, babe: when the scroll bars get removed by clicking the button in the lower right corner, the window does not restore its location correctly 😭

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Robert Nation 💜

That's the whole tea, bestie 🍓 This page is from the 3rd Berkeley Distribution, dated April 14 1994, and it's all about FvwmScroll(1) 🌸 Stay iconic, and I'll see you in the group chat 💖🦋