On Mar 25, 9:06am, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
} Subject: Re: FVWM: Why use fvwm 2.0?
}
} Barton> played with in the past, is DontMoveOff. The FAQ says
} Barton> there's no equivalent; what is the closest similar effect?
}
} There is EdgeResistance where you can set a number of pixels. The
} window won't be moved off-screen unless you move it off-screen by more
} than that number of pixels.
OK, I should have thought of that myself. But will EdgeResistance
prevent initial placement from being offscreen? What's the fvwm 2
equivalent of mwm's PositionOnScreen?
} IMVHO, Next and Prev are the greatest thing under the sun. While
} they're not compatible to CirculateUp and CirculateDown, they do what
} I have always wished Circulate{Up,Down} to do: With Circulate, the
} movement is in a window ring where the relative positions of the
} windows are based on the time of creation of the windows. (This may
} be completely wrong as my idea of what the Circulate functions do is
} based on twm not fvwm...)
Hmm. I'd never really paid close attention, but my impression of
Circulate{Up,Down} is that there is no fixed ring, but a cycle
determined entirely by the stacking order at the instant the
function is used. E.g. CirculateDown takes the topmost window and
pushes it to the bottom, and CirculateUp takes the bottom-most
window and pulls it to the top.
In the virtual-mwm I've used (IXI Panorama) the definitions of
"topmost" and "bottom-most" get a bit confused, because *all* the
windows have a stacking order as if they were on a single desktop,
so you can end up circulating windows you can't see; but it still
works by instantaneous stacking order as far as I can tell.
Maybe it's different if you use click-to-focus rather than focus-
follows-pointer; when I use circulate, it's always from a root menu
or a root-window key binding, so the cursor is in the root and no
window has focus.
That reminds me of a related question:
When using focus-follows-pointer, Focus (e.g. from FvwmWinList)
warps the pointer to the upper left corner of the window frame.
Is there some way to get it to put the cursor actually inside the
window, rather than on the frame?
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Received on Mon Mar 25 1996 - 04:09:29 GMT