Re: FVWM: window placement

From: David Nugent <davidn_at_unique.usn.blaze.net.au>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 04:00:00 +1000 (EST)

On 21-Apr-97 Thimo Jansen wrote:
> On 20 Apr 1997, Bud Rogers (budr_at_tanet.net) wrote:
>
> xkeycaps.geometry: 780x390
> pixmap.geometry: 700x720
> Xedit*geometry: 650x550+0+0
>
> I haven't yet found out what the exact difference is between
> using a "*" or a ".", but what the h_at_#$, it's working... ;)

A "*" is a wildcard. If, for example, the exact resource string
was:

        xkeycaps.window1.widget2.hsize

Then this would match:

        xkeycaps*widget2.hsize: 50
  and
        xkeycaps*widget2*hsize: 50
  but not
        xkeycaps.hsize: 50

In fact, "*" can match not only '.', but any character. So

        xkeycaps*size: 50

matches any resource string that starts with "xkeycaps" and
ends with "size". Obviously, you have to be a little careful
with that. similarly, if you wanted to match all widgets on
a particular window, then you can:

        xkeycaps*widget*.hsize: 50

Same thing with fonts too, btw. It is sort of a very primitive
(glob-like) string matching method that is much cheaper than
regular expressions.


Regards,

David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
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Received on Mon Apr 21 1997 - 13:07:51 BST