On 19 Feb 2001 20:52:26 -0500, Paul Fox wrote:
>
> until recently i was running fvwm2 version 2.0.45. a system upgrade
> to redhat 7.0 brought me version 2.2.4, which seems (for my purposes)
> to be a transparent upgrade, except for one thing.
>
> i use the Circulate functionality a lot. i include the following lines
> in .fvwm2rc to give myself a ring of windows, accessible with function
> keys:
>
> Key F1 A N Next [!iconic CurrentDesk] Focus
> Key F2 A N Prev [!iconic CurrentDesk] Focus
>
> this worked fine in the older version, but after the upgrade, i
> find that "circulating" to a window gives it focus, but no longer
> raises it -- in fact, it will happily grant focus to a window that is
> left completely obscured.
>
> reading the man page, it sounds like the "Focus" argument _should_ be
> raising the window for me ("Raises the window if needed to make it
> visible."), so i'm not sure what i'm doing wrong. since this all
> worked in a previous version, i guess it must be due to some other,
> conflicting, behavior that changed and which is also enabled in my
> .fvwm2rc file.
The man page in 2.2.4 is not up to date. Focus does not raises.
> any ideas on where or how to look?
I rememeber answering this question a lot of times.
Entering a query "Next;Focus;Raise;Mikhael" in the mail archives gives:
http://www.hpc.uh.edu/fvwm/archive/0012/msg00193.html
http://www.hpc.uh.edu/fvwm/archive/0101/msg00242.html
You may improvise on the query to give more results.
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Tue Feb 20 2001 - 06:28:59 GMT