Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir_at_technion.ac.il> writes:
> 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.
Yep, sorry. On my Solaris machine its still reasonable.
I might be singing a different tune if I still had my Sparc 1.
> The windows list does not strike me as a good default: it lacks an
> indication of whether the window is minimized, for instance.
The geometry of the window should be shown in parenthesis.
> 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.
When the build takes place the final location of ConfigFvwmDefaults gets
builtin to fvwm. If you don't do a make install, and instead copy just
the binaries, you might get the symptom of WindowListFunc not defined.
I don't see what else could be missing, but perhaps if you fix the
problem with ConfigFvwmDefaults, selectonrelease will start working.
I'm not sure what you mean about the enter key. The selectonrelease
stuff will only work with the alt-tab combination.
> 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.
alt-tab will cycle thru the window list menu, when it reaches the end,
it cycles back to the beginning. Isn't that what you want?
> 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 othe
> r
> > > 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? :(
Oops. So many questions come in with the assumption that we know
they are using Linux. I'm a die hard Solaris user too.
Well, its not that hard for Solaris either. Use --prefix if you
aren't root. It can be installed anywhere.
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Received on Wed May 02 2001 - 17:08:24 BST