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#  Name: FvwmTaskBar.patch.README
#  Athr: Michael D. Beynon (mdb) - beynon@acm.org
#  Date: 05/08/1997 : mdb - Created.
#  Desc: Mods to offical FvwmTaskBar in fvwm95-2.0.43a distribution.
#        ftp://mitac11.uia.ac.be/pub/fvwm95-2.0.43a-Autoconf.tgz
#          was used as the basis.
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To apply patches ...

	% cd fvwm95-2.0.43a-Autoconf
	% cd modules/FvwmTaskBar
	% patch < WHEREVER_YOU_PUT_IT/FvwmTaskBar.patch

Now run make distclean, configure and build as you normally would.
Be sure to do the distclean, since the changes I made to Makefile.in
will only be seen if the Makefiles are re-created.


06/19/1997 : mdb - Bug in FvwmTaskBar.

The list of buttons used in ButtonArray.{c,h} does not include
the id of the window.  It seems, iconized and sticky windows were
in the windows list and also fvwm messages caused them to be
added twice.  I tried to hack a quick fix, but it needs to be
done like FvwmWinList current code does.


05/08/1997 : mdb - Finished changes to FvwmTaskBar.

I have made some changes to FvwmTaskBar to optionally see new unread mail
on the taskbar.  These have been used by several people for a few months,
so I think they are stable.  See the man page for FvwmTaskBar for more
details.  I modified the Tip window to be able to handle multiple lines.
Then I used this to show entries from the users mail spool file.  The
location of this file is the same as for the mail fcn the taskbar had
before.  I also made a couple mods to allow an arbitrary command to be
run when new mail arrives, and on the hour.  I use this to play sounds
indicating mail is here, and that another hour of my life has slipped
away.  :^)

There is a small problem with the AutoMailTips as it stands now.  If the
screen is xlock'ed when the mail tip is displayed, it seems to "fight"
with xlock for control.  This shows my lack of knowledge in programming
X, but I think it has to do with responding to the unmap call from xlock.
This is not fatal, and is acutally a nice way to see if I have mail
w/o unlocking the screen.  (Yeah, I know I am just trying to justify it
to myself)

I also fixed a couple small existing bugs in the task bar.  The checking
for .fvwm95rc options was not correct for anything starting with Auto, due
to an incorrect length when checking for "AutoHide".  LoopOnEvents made the
assumption that all the X Event structures had a time field in the same
place.  Since this is obviously wrong, I made a change to fix this.

There was also a problem with FvwmTaskBar needing a line in ~/.fvwm95rc
to find the icon files (specifically for the start menu).  I changed
the Makefile to pass the default FVWM_ICONDIR as it does for fvwm.
(I also changed all the Makefiles to support installing not in /usr/lib/...
since I don't have root access where I am -- these changes are not in any
diffs)


07/21/1997 : mdb - Details documented.

     *FvwmTaskBarAutoMailTip [type]
          This option controls the auto-display of new mail in  a
          multi-line  tip  window.   Three  possible  values  are
          allowed  for  the   optional   type   argument:   Mail-
          FileTouched,   MailFileBigger,   or  MailFileAnyChange.
          MailFileTouched means the  mail  spool  file  has  been
          modified  since the last access, MailFileBigger is when
          the mail spool file gets  larger  in  size,  and  Mail-
          FileAnyChange  is  when the mail spool file gets larger
          or  smaller.   These  conditions   control   when   the
          AutoMailTip  window is displayed.  The default is Mail-
          FileAnyChange.


     *FvwmTaskBarMailTipUnblankScreen
          If set, the screen will be un-blanked when the mail tip
          is drawn.


     *FvwmTaskBarNewMailCommand command
          Executes the command upon receipt of new mail.


     *FvwmTaskBarHourlyCommand command
          Executes the command every hour.



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