"PDS" == Paul D Smith <psmith_at_BayNetworks.com> writes:
In article <9510161828.AA22893_at_lemming.engeast> Paul D. Smith
<psmith_at_BayNetworks.com> writes:
PDS> Another thing that happens which is also annoying is that I'll move my
PDS> mouse to the title bar to left-click the top window into the back, but
PDS> I'll overshoot briefly onto another window or the root. Then I move my
PDS> mouse back to the top window, which causes the autoraise timer to
PDS> start, left-click it to the back. Then when the autoraise timer goes
PDS> off, it comes back to the front. Sometimes I can get into this rhythm
PDS> where I'll keep left-clicking a window into the back and FVWM keeps
PDS> stubbornly raising it again for 4 or 5 times! :)
That's why I find the "default" 500ms timeout a bit tight. 750-1000 is more
like it (and more than that is too sluggish).
PDS> I want autoraise to basically keep track when a new window is selected,
PDS> and junk any old autoraise in progress and start a timer for the newly
PDS> selected window. It seems to do this normally (if you move to window A
PDS> then back again it doesn't raise window A), but not when windows are
PDS> explicitly deiconified or raised.
Hmm. Yes, that's how it works (should work). I'm sure there is a catch mixing
deiconify/raise/focus/whatever events, but the most common trouble is the
timing. Unix/X is not real-time, you know... A thorough check of all event
timestamps (possible in 2.0!) is REALLY complicated.
PDS> Does that make sense? I'd be very willing to alpha- or beta-test any
PDS> patches to FvwmAuto you have :)
Welllll... The prototype I have is not a patch, but a *new* module, written in
Python. Of course, after getting things right, the algorithm can go to a
C module as a patch... If I have the time ;-)
(BTW, that module now correctly emulates/substitutes FvwmAuto, FvwmAudio,
FvwmClean (the "famous" AutoLower module!), and, basically, any
non-X-interface module. Latest version works w/ 2.0 (I switched last week,
finally) and can use Python's tkinter -- that is, Tk widgets...)
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Received on Mon Oct 16 1995 - 14:12:21 BST