FVWM: Window placement questions

From: Uwe Pross <uwe.pross_at_e-technik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 08:53:26 +0200

Hi there,

is it possible to achieve that fvwm ignores certain windows completely
while placing others?

I configured fvwm that it pops up a xmessage for 2 seconds when it
starts a program to show that something is happen:

AddToFunc FuncStartProgram I Exec echo Starting $0 $1 $2...>> /dev/console
 + I Exec xmessage -timeout 2 -button "" -name SplashWindow -geometry +0+0 "Starting $0 $1 $2..."
 + I Exec $*

This "SplashWindow" should stay on top and it should be ignored by
placement algorithm:

Style "SplashWindow" NoTitle, BorderWidth 0, HandleWidth 0, \
                     StaysOnTop, Sticky, WindowListSkip, NeverFocus

Is it possible to get this window ignored by while placing other
windows?

The second question I have is also about window placement. I have
asked this question before and it was said to be possible in version
>2.5.x but I have not idea how to set this up.

My desktop looks like this:

+----------------+---+
| | |
| | |
| | |
| 1 | 2 |
| | |
| | |
| | |
+----------------+---+
| 3 |
+--------------------+

Where 1 is the main area, 2 is a button bar and 3 is the taskbar. I
would like to set up fvwm that is places new windows only in area 1.

Any suggestions how to get this work?

Thanks.

Uwe
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Received on Mon Jun 03 2002 - 01:54:02 BST

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