Re: FVWM: Next Focus not cycling?

From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir_at_technion.ac.il>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 23:52:06 +0300 (IDT)

On Wed, 2 May 2001, Dan Espen wrote:

> Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir_at_technion.ac.il> writes:
>
> > 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 have no problem with editing config files. I put a special "config"
button in my Buttons to open .fvwm2rc .

OK. I downloaded,, compiled, copied it from the build machine, and ran it.

There are some nice improvements. But the size has increased.

The windows list does not strike me as a good default: it lacks an
indication of whether the window is minimized, for instance.

The "select on release" does not appear to be working.

When I press Enter I get the message:

  [FVWM][execute_function]: <<ERROR>> No such command 'WindowListFunc'

and nothing happens.

After I added the definition of WindowListFunc from ConfigFvwmDefaults all
I needed was to press enter.

And anyway, the original problem was not resolved: When I set my original
mapping of Alt-Tab, it still won't cycle through the list of windows: it
only advances in the list, and won't advance beyond the last window in the
list.

Is this a bug with me or is it a feature and I'm not reading the man page
correctly?

>
> > I think that this problem is a bit to obvious to have been missedif 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.

For solaris? :(

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