>>>>> "Douglas" == Douglas K Rand <rand_at_aero.und.edu> writes:
Douglas> I've patched fvwm-2.0.43 to handle negative conditions with a
Douglas> leading '!' character. I use
Douglas> Next [!Iconic CurrentDesk CurrentScreen !Fvwm*] Focus
Douglas> in my .fvwmrc to move to cycle through the windows on the
Douglas> current screen. The "!Fvwm*" part is what ignores all windows
Douglas> with a name, class, or resource matching "Fvwm*". I'd rather
Douglas> use the "go to the next window ignoring these windows" style
Douglas> instead of "go to the next window with a name like ____."
Makes sense.
Douglas> I managed to resist the temptation to put in complete regular
Douglas> expressions, as that would break the documented behavior of
Douglas> Next and Prev. Instead, I simply expanded the already
Douglas> existing '!' convention to window names.
Good idea (for the time being at least).
Douglas> The patch isn't the prettiest. Perhaps I should have included
Douglas> misc.h which would have gotten me the NoClass and NoResource
Douglas> variables to use instead of the literal strings.
That would have been better, yes.
Douglas> I hope others will enjoy this patch.
A variant of this might make it into 2.1.0, since it should be
relatively harmless and rather useful.
Chuck
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Received on Tue Jul 16 1996 - 09:03:34 BST