FVWM: GotoDisplay function...

From: Bill McGee <bill.mcgee_at_amd.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 18:20:26 -0800

Has anyone implemented a solution to this yet? I am interested
in some form of equivalent to ctwm's f$warptoscreen(#) function.

Thanks,
Bill.McGee_at_amd.com





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> Re: Feature Request: Goto Display (was: Looking for a mouseless way to
> switch between screens. Part 2)
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> * To: barbour_at_firebird.fsl.noaa.gov
> * Subject: Re: Feature Request: Goto Display (was: Looking for a
> mouseless way to switch between screens. Part 2)
> * From: albrecht_at_auto.tuwien.ac.at (Albrecht Kadlec)
> * Date: Tue, 11 Jun 96 11:21:28 +0200
> * Cc: FVWM2 mailing list <fvwm_at_hpc.uh.edu>
> * In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.90.4.834459449.barbour_at_firebird.fsl.noaa.gov>
> (message from Jim Barbour on Mon, 10 Jun 96 20:17:29 MDT)
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> >>>>> Jim Barbour writes:
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> J> Hi,
> J> Last week, I posted a question asking for a mouseless way to switch
> J> among screens. From the responses I got back, i was clear to me that I
> J> totally botched the question :-( So, please allow me to try again.
>
> J> I understand how to jump between desktops, and among pages within a
> J> desktop. What I'm looking for, is a way to jump between screens in a
> J> multi-screen environment.
>
> oops. Everyone thought you meant pages. :-)
>
> J> when fvwm comes up, it shows me 2 desktop 0s, one in each screen. I
> J> was hoping there was either a direct way to jump between screens, or a
> J> way to assign desktop 0 to display :0.0 and desktop 1 to screen :0.1,
> J> or a way to assign pages within a desktop to each screen, or...
>
> So we're in for a GotoDisplay feature request.
> Now this is the 3rd dimension in the Goto hierarchy:
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> Goto ({ Absolute | Relative } { Display | Desk | Page })+
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> and the 4th dimension in the positioning hierarchy
> (if we don't count the internet address components - domain/host):
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> Display Desk Page Geometry
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> J> Anyway, anybody got any ideas?
> Chuck?
>
> who implemented the new Goto and StartsOn syntax?
>
> cheers,
> albrecht
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> * Looking for a mouseless way to switch between screens. Part 2
> o From: Jim Barbour <barbour_at_firebird.fsl.noaa.gov>
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