Previously...
>Does anyone know how this works? I'm trying to get two lists of
>windows: one showing the contents of the current desk and the other
>showing the contents of the other desks. I though I could do it with:
>
>*FvwmIconMan*NumManagers 2
>*FvwmIconMan*1*Resolution desk
>*FvwmIconMan*2*Resolution global
>
>but manager 2 doesn't show anything. I could do it with two separate
>FvwmIconMan's but the second one would show all the windows including
>those on the current desk.
AFAIK, it *doesn't* work. I asked Brady about this about two years ago
and he indicated that it's something he hadn't counted on. The trouble
is that iconman has to know to which manager a window belongs for
management. That decision is based solely on the show/dontshow lists.
Resolution only comes into play after the show/dontshow lists have
determined what manager owns a window. Only one manager can own a
window.
I finally wrote an unofficial patch to iconman to do this. It ain't
pretty, but it does work, except some problems with followsfocus not
displaying the correct focus at times.
http://www.best.com/~mikehan/iconman.diff
What I ended up doing was enabling iconman to run under aliases and
creating new resolutions, !desk and !page. Bleh. Not the right way to
do it, but I wasn't about to start messing with the right fix, since
it looked like a fairly major overhaul.
I don't suppose you have any ideas? It'd be nice if there were an
official fix to this one.
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Received on Sat Oct 16 1999 - 00:44:44 BST