Re: FVWM: fvwm.org annoyance/FvwmIconMan - window grouping?

From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:20:52 +0200

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:41:28AM -0400, Ben Winslow wrote:
> Secondly, I have a question:
> Is it possible to have FvwmIconMan group windows by their class? While
> I'd ideally like to start doing this (vs. normal behavior) when there
> are more than X entries to be drawn, I wouldn't mind doing it all the
> time. (I'm using 2.5 from CVS.)
>
> I'm thinking that something along these lines might be possible,
> although I'm uncertain after a quick read of the manual: a 'main'
> IconMan could show each distinct class name, and then a transient
> FvwmIconMan could be spawned from a mouse binding. While spawning the
> transient FvwmIconMan is easy enough to figure out, I don't see any
> obvious way to show only distinct classes in the main icon manager.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions or ideas, please let me know--I may make a
> patch to add this behavior if it's not currently possible.

I don't think FvwemIconMan can group windows inside one manager
window. But if you know the window groups beforehand, you can
create a separate window for each of the groups. Take a look at
the example at the end of the FvwmIconMan man page:

  *FvwmIconMan: NumManagers 2

  *FvwmIconMan: 1 Title "Emacs windows"
  *FvwmIconMan: 1 Show resource=emacs resource=gemacs
  *FvwmIconMan: 1 ManagerGeometry 1x0-400+0

  *FvwmIconMan: 2 Title "All windows"
  *FvwmIconMan: 2 ManagerGeometry 2x4-0+0

It's not exactly what you described, but still better than
nothing.

Ciao

Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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