Re: FVWM: Timeoutable activeplacement?

From: Eric Brandwine <eric_at_symphony.mitre.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:10:10 -0400 (EDT)

> thought could be neat is an ActivePlacement which has a time-out
> parameter. A window-frame appears, and if I don't move the mouse for a few
> seconds (because I'm either busy, or just away), the window self-appears
> randomally (or Smartly or whatever). What do you think?
This should be relatively easy to implement. Could even steal some code
from the autoraise module... Which raises the question, Should there be a
placement module? Can there be, if the server is grabbed during
placement? Hmmmmm....

> PS: Apparantly, ActivePlacemnt is not as smart as ctwm's? In ctwm you
> can resize the window while placing it. Now _this_ is a productivity tool
> IMO.
This is a moldy oldie. It was first implemented (I believe), in uwm, the
original window manager that was dropped starting X11R3. It is in twm and
all derivatives, mwm, and a couple of others. Even xmag uses the same
logic. Personally, I never used it, found it useless. However, to each
his own....

Draw up a table of the mouse buttons, and the behavior that you expect for
each. Might not be so hard.

ericb

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Received on Sun Aug 10 1997 - 13:10:46 BST

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