On Thu, 05 Oct 1995 17:37:25 -0400 Charles Hines wrote:
>
> OpaqueResize is gone. It was an interesting feature, but needed a
> really good X server & hardware to be used. It might resurface, who
> knows? I can put it on the TO-DO list, if people really want to see
> it back.
>
*Sniff* I liked it... Count 1 vote from me to add it back in.
>
> 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.
>
> Chuck
AGH! Please dont mess with this one - I use it all of the time!
Basically it is a style that allows you selectively turn on/off
switching desktops when a window is being mapped.
For instance, I have two desktops: Main and Mail. When I start fvwm,
an xtermand some other stuff it started on Main. On Mail, I start
emacs and exmh. I have the SkipMapping style set for emacs and exmh
so when they start, fvwm doesnt jump to the Mail desktop and then back
to the Main desktop. It makes them start up "in the background". I
thought the jumping back and forth when windows are being mapped is
real ugly.
Here is the style line for my exmh and emacs:
Style "?macs" Icon gnu-animal.xpm, StartsOnDesk 1, NoButton 2,
SkipMapping
Style "?xmh" Icon mail1.xpm, StartsOnDesk 1, NoButton 2, SkipMapping
Here is an excerpt from two messages from Rob Nation (2nd and 3rd of
August) on this issue:
>You need to set the SHOW_ON_MAP flag which exists in fvwm. There seems to
>be no way to set this in current versions of fvwm, other than by changing the
>source code.
and...
>>Do you think it would be possible to add this to a future release of
>>fvwm so you can do this in the .fvwmrc rather than modifying the
>>source code? It would be nice to have the option to SHOW_MAP or
>>SKIP_MAP on a selective basis!
>Actually, its obscure, but it was already there. There were
>styles ShowMapping and SkipMapping that did the job.
Hope this helps.
Tim
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Received on Fri Oct 06 1995 - 21:34:51 BST