Re: FVWM: New to fvwm2...where did this go?

From: Charles Hines <>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 09:14:55 -0400

>>>>> "Rob" == Robert Nation 885-9815 <rnation_at_mansvr.sanders.lockheed.com> writes:

Lance> Lastly, according to the pl35 man page, there is an
Lance> undocumented option that I am curious about:
Lance> SkipMapping/ShowMapping. What's this?

>> You know, I just looked through all the source code, and it's not used
>> anywhere. That must have been something that Rob was going to
>> implement, but never did, or was implemented and then later removed.
>> I don't know what it was supposed to be. I'll ask Rob.

Rob> The show/skip mapping option gets set as the flag SHOW_MAPPING in
Rob> style.c

I found that much, but didn't find any other references to the
SHOW_MAPPING flag in the code.

Rob> This gets copied over into the flag in the FvwmWindow structure,
Rob> and renamed to SHOW_ON_MAPPING in add_window.c (look for
Rob> ALL_COMMON_FLAGS). It is used to cause/prevent the window manager
Rob> to change to the desktop of a new window that is mapping for the
Rob> first time.

Ah, Ok, that would explain why I didn't find SHOW_MAPPING anywhere
else. :) I feel a little silly now.

Thanks,
Chuck

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