Re: FVWM: Next Focus not cycling?

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 15:26:00 -0400

Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir_at_technion.ac.il> writes:
> Hi
>
> I wanted to reply in private, but the sender's address bounced, so...

We like all replies to go back to fvwm_at_fvwm.org. You should have been
able to respond to me, but stuff happens.

> On Tue, 1 May 2001, Dan Espen wrote:
>
> > Tzafrir Cohen writes:
>
> > > Any ideas? What should I check?
> >
> > Download the 2.3.31 beta, its all built in and works very nicely.
>
> Are you sure? Is this a known problem that was fixed somewhere?

Perhaps I wasn't clear.

In the latest betas, there is a built in alt-tab key binding. It
brings up a menu (windowlist) using the new "select on release"
feature that lets you hold down alt, and keep pressing tab until you
get to the line you want. When you release the keys, the window you
are on in the menu is selected. If you keep pressing tab, the
selection wraps from the bottom of the menu to the top. If you press
alt-tab-tab the previous window is selected. If you iconify a window,
and press alt-tab the iconified window is selected.

In short, its perfect, and you don't have to put anything in your config
file. Just like the original.

> I think that this problem is a bit to obvious to have been missed if it
> had affected every user. So I figure that it is a more spesific problem.
> Therefore the fact that it works fine for someone does not mean that an
> upgrade will solve the problem (not to mention that it may introduce other
> problems).
>
> Building another version is a bit of a complicated operation. I'd like to
> see if there aren't any better suggestions.

Hmm, we don't think its that hard. We do have RPMs available.

> Also, someone remarked that I set:
>
> Key Tab A M Next (!Iconify CurrentScreen) Focus
> Key Tab A MS Prev (!Iconify CurrentScreen) Focus
>
> but the last line should have had MS instead of SM . Is that correct? If
> so: Is that docuemnted anywhere? I've tried changing that, and the problem
> is not yet solved.

I don't know, it doesn't seem to me like a good thing to use anyway.
Maybe someone else knows more about this if you really want to
go that way.

> Thanks, anyway.
>
> BTW: I got the error: '*FvwmTaskBar: cannot open console' . It appears
> that the attempt to open /dev/console is indeed wrapped by NO_CONSOLE, but
> NO_CONSOLE is not defined anywhere (even not in a remmed-out #define in
> the beginning of FvwmTaskBar.c, and nothing in the toplevel config.h)
>
> A problem I have with the taskbar is that the start button remains
> depressed after the first time I press it (actually I use the task-bar
> mainly as a windows list).
>
> One other thing regarding the taskbar: (I didn't bother checking if this
> wasn't already fixed elsewhere): the pasrsing of the "FvwmTaskBarMailbox"
> parameter is wrong: in extra/FvwmTaskBar/Goodies.c:GoodiesParseConfig(),
> the length of "Mailbox" is assumed to be 11, while it is 7.
>
> GodiesParseConfig also forgets to remove the newline char from the end of
> the config line. Thus the mailbox path get parsed as
> "/path/to/mailbox<NL>"
>
> Personally for me this module seems quite handy as a windows list and a
> mail notification/clock. I like the same settings in IceWM as well.

I don't use the TaskBar but I'm pretty sure this module recieved a lot
of attention in the recent betas.

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Dan Espen
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