Greetings!
I have recently converted to fvwm-2.0.39 from ctwm-3.3. Overall I'm
very pleased. However, I have some suggested improvements. As you
might expect, these are features in ctwm :)
Comments/suggestions welcome.
Fvwm
+ Provide a "moveDelta" for motion triggers. A motion trigger will only
occur if you move the mouse more than a specified X pixels within a
specified time. Thus, you would not be required to have the hands of
a surgeon if you have an Immediate or Move function.
+ Provide a "focusOnly" function, i.e., redirects keyboard focus to a
specified window, but does not raise the window or warp the cursor to
it. This very useful with Icon Managers where you can slide the mouse
just a little to move between a bunch of windows.
Invariably when I'm hot and heavy into debugging I have a bunch of
windows I'm switching between alot and don't need to see the whole thing.
+ Allow some form of "warp" to indicated position. When I do want to warp
to a window I'd prefer to be able to have the cursor go somewhere other
than the upper left corner. Maybe a percentage form would be nice,
warp x% y%, so
warp 50 50
would place the cursor in the middle of the specified window.
+ Why was the cursor stuff removed? I don't care for some of the cursors.
+ I'm not sure where this one goes, either in Fvwm or in FvwmPager.
Basically I find "stick" rather restrictive, its an "all or one" thing.
What I would like is to have windows exist in a general subset of
pages/desks. Then provide an "occupy" function ala ctwm. When you
select a window to apply this function to, a set of buttons pop up, one
for each desk and page. You select which places the window occurs on
by depressing/undepressing buttons and then click on an "OK".
FvwmPager
+ Allow pager to toggle between the current map and a set of buttons (ala
ctwm). When the pager is just buttons there would be buttons for each
desk and each page in each desk. Clicking a button takes you to that
desk/page. Support toggling by both some form of function/message to
the module and a key press (e.g. control) in the pager window.
+ Allow separate sizes for map and buttons configurations. The buttons
don't need to take up as much room as the map.
FvwmIconMan
+ Make each entry appear as a button (ala ctwm)
+ Make button corresponding to window with focus depressed/raised (opposite
of other icon buttons)
+ Allow an action to be bound to the entering of these buttons. E.g.,
just placing the mouse on an icon button directs focus to the corresponding
window (see the focus only function above).
+ Allow ignoring of transient windows.
+ Add regular expressions as mentioned in man page
+ Maybe add the next/prev stuff from ctwm
FvwmAuto
+ Allow only certain windows to autoRaise. The recent ctwms to this.
In general, I don't like auto raising. However, I prefer allowing
things like clock and FvwmPager/ctwm's workspaces to autoRaise as
opposed to having them always on top.
+ Maybe allow different raise delays for windows, using wildcards
David A. Berson.
berson_at_cs.pitt.edu
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Received on Wed Dec 20 1995 - 09:41:05 GMT