I am trying to get my FvwmButtons buttons to un-depress when a window
appears. But I can't find any way to do it. Please let me know if I'm
overlooking something.
For many of my buttons, I don't just want to Exec. I want to run a
function which does an Exec followed by a Focus and/or a WarpToWindow.
But it seems that I can't do that as well as getting the button to pop up
when the window appears. The code I'm using is:
AddToFunc ExecAndFocus "I" Exec $0
+ "I" Wait $1
+ "I" Prev [$1] Focus
...
*FvwmButtons(Title Mail, Icon mail2.xpm, Action `Function ExecAndFocus
"xterm -g 80x30 -T Pine -n Pine -e pine -i" Pine`)
So here's my suggestion: it would seem logical to make the first
(optional) parameter to Exec a separate option, so that it can be used
with other FVWM commands, like say adding a Wait option:
*FvwmButtons(Title Mail, Icon mail2.xpm, Action `Function ExecAndFocus
"xterm -g 80x30 -T Pine -n Pine -e pine -i" Pine`, Wait "Pine")
My second suggestion is to allow wildcards in the window name. At the
moment, I'm having to do this:
*FvwmButtons(Title "Netscape", Icon netscape3.xpm, Action `Exec "Netscape:
Version 4.04 [en]-97308" netscape`)
But my guess is that the window title will change the next time my system
administrator updates Netscape. Why not this:?
*FvwmButtons(Title "Netscape", Icon netscape3.xpm, Action `Exec
"Netscape*" netscape`)
(In fact the standard Wait command could do with that enhancement too.)
Chris Heath
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Received on Sat Jul 18 1998 - 16:21:31 BST