Re: FVWM: raise and lower window based on activity

From: Vivek <vivek_at_etrade.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:12:56 +0100 (BST)

On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, greg shebert wrote:

> hi there...
>
> this may be beyond the scope of a window manager but i figured that,
> since fvwm does so much already, that this might be possible...
>
> basically what i want to do is have a terminal window that normally
> stays iconified... whenever there is some output in the terminal window,
> it should pop up on top of all other windows on whatever desktop/screen
> the user is on, sit there for maybe 3 seconds, and then iconify itself
> again
>
> can this be done?

Um... if you pipe the output through a filter, which dumps xterm control
sequences, then yes, you can, but that isn't really fvwm related...

The sequences you want are:

CSI 1 t

 and

CSI 2 t

[ I can send you a perl script that converts those symbolic sequences into
  7 or 8 bit control sequences, if you like, since I wrote one the other
  day... synchronicity is spooky ]

I think CSI is: [7bit]: 0x1b 0x5b
            or: [8bit]: 0x9b

depending on whether you're in 7 or 8 bit mode...

You might be able to do other funky things with setting the xterm names
and FvwmEvent, iirc, but I don't really know much about that.

HTH
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Received on Mon Jun 05 2000 - 09:04:59 BST

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