Re: FVWM: per window autoraise? [new FvwmAuto version]

From: Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann_at_charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 16 Oct 1996 15:50:54 +0200

>>>>> Albrecht Kadlec writes:

  Albrecht> PS to Kai: your problem is special. I still can't get a
  Albrecht> style flag out of thin air. You could peruse circulateskip
  Albrecht> and windowlistskip flags, but the problem is, there's no
  Albrecht> if [!circulateskip] command
  Albrecht> and the
  Albrecht> FvwmAuto 300 "Next [!circulateskip,windowid $w] command"
  Albrecht> doesn't work yet (timout, I'll have to be in the barracks
  Albrecht> at 24:00). - maybe soon (no more changes in FvwmAuto, but
  Albrecht> bugfixes for the circulate option parsing part of fvwm2)

Dear Albrecht,

I do not understand the last FvwmAuto line, but there is in fact a way
to do it without style flags. Though I agree that it is ugly. Here's
my proposal, you might want to add your comments on the
meaningfulness.

With the new SendToModule command, it would be easy to add a menu
entry that enables or disables AutoRaise for the particular window for
which it was invoked. FvwmAuto could read an initial specification of
windows which are to be autoraised as *FvwmAuto lines in .fvwm2rc;
this could then later be changed on a per-window basis with
SendToModule.

I would use the autoraise and autolower features as follows: the
console window (plus a few others) should always be autoraised (and
-lowered), so I would put them in the *FvwmAuto lines. After that,
when I create a new xdvi window and feel like it, I turn on autoraise
(and -lower) for that particular window with a key binding or a menu
entry.

Whatcha think?
kai
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