John Morrow wrote:
>
> I've been putting off going from 1.24r to 2.0.X for a while now
> because quite a few things I'd been using didn't seem to be
> implemented yet but now that most of them have appeared, I've decided
> to give it a go. Other than the fact that I liked being able to make
> sticky windows a different color (too minor to get annoyed over), the
> main difference that has been bothering me is the pager behavior. I
> had generally been using the built-in pager in 1.24r and it allows you
> to bring windows into focus by clicking on them inside of the pager.
> This is something that I use a heck of alot (I use click-to-focus for
> my windows) and the module pager just doesn't seem to do it though you
> can *move* a window inside of it and raise and focus it that way.
> Since I didn't expect this to be addressed quickly (I'm sure people
> have better things to work on right now) but since I consider it a
> "must have" feature if I'm going to work with 2.0.X, I took a look at
> the code and came up with some changes that seems to add this feature
> so long as you stay within the same desktop (I generally use a single
> desktop pager like the old built-in, anyway) and don't iconify the
> pager (it won't crash the pager in those instances -- it just won't
> work to focus the window). I don't have any X programming experience
> and I've only read through some of the pager code (the changes are
> taken from the move code) so I'm essentially looking for someone to
> comment, help, or adopt this change and incorporate it into 2.0.X.
> I'm sure it could be made to work across desktops since moving does
> and it might be possible to make it work for the icon and the changes
> don't look that complex but since I don't know very much about X
> programming, I can only guess at what needs to be done and I'm
> reluctant to make more major changes blind. The patch for my changes
> appears below:
>
> John Morrow
>
For me, clicking with MB2 in the pager already does just this.
Jim P
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Received on Mon Mar 03 1997 - 13:01:02 GMT