Re: FVWM: StartsOnDesk

From: Christopher Wolf <cwolf_at_micro.ti.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:51:19 -0500 (CDT)

On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, David Kennedy wrote:

>Wolf said:
>> Is there a starts-in-room style like the StartsOnDesk style? Or do I
>> need to emulate it using some of the other functions available.
>
>Basically, there isn't a function like this.
>I've been suggesting for some time that a virtual window manager
>_needs_ a StartsOnPage function to make buttons truly useful.
>
>(Simple, I'd like to be working, click a button for an editor,
>or a newsreader more likely!, have it start up quietly on
>another page while I work on...the best I can emulate is flicking
>to the page and starting it up, thats not what I want/need.
>I hate staring at things starting up or waiting for connections etc.)


What I dislike is not being able to return to the page I was on.
I can sort-of emulate it with GotoPage, but I cannot return to where
I was. I'd like this for a number of programs that need to run in
a window, but which I seldom need to look at -- only to check up
on them every now and then... oh well.

-Wolf

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Received on Thu Sep 12 1996 - 11:53:00 BST

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