On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 17:54, Ken Deeter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've gotta few configuration questions that I was hoping somebody could
> help me out with. Was using gnome2 for a while, but realized i needed something
> more than metacity... will probably converge to fvwm 2.5 + gnome2 eventually..
>
> Anyhow, I'm using 2.4.15 for the moment, and I've got a few things that I'm trying
> to do but can't seem to figure out how to do them.
>
> 1) Focus when switching pages: When I switch a page, I want the last focused window
> on that page (before i left) to be refocused. To do this, I tried to write a function
> like:
There's currently not a way to do this internally, *however*, Peter
McAlpine wrote a module using FvwmPerl to pull this off. I've thrown it
at
http://themuffin.net/FvwmTrackFocus.pl since I don't want to attach
it. I load it from my InitFunction with 'Module FvwmTrackFocus.pl', and
there's little else to it!
I do think you'll need to use 2.5 for it, though--I don't think
FVWM::Module exists in 2.4.
> 2) Raising when using WindowList: I want to try to replicate sawfish type behaviour in
> combination with the windowilst.. is there any way to capture the user moving down
> through the list and running commands based on the current selected window (before
> the SelectOnRelease fires)?
I don't think there's a way to do this, either, but I'd like to see
something like it. I often have so many windows on one viewport that
it's very difficult to figure out which I'm actually after by the window
title alone.
> 3) How "unstable" is 2.5.x? Is it like a "its a CVS snapshot so it might
> not even compile" type of unstable? or is it a "it mostly works but
> there might be a few bugs" kind of stable. I've seen some of the
> screenshots of 2.5.x which look quite interesting, plust the EWMH
> compatibility, but i also don't want something that I'm gonna have to
> fight with all the time. Also, I'm sure lots of people ask and I know
> its on the FAQ,etc etc, but is there a ballpark estimate for when 2.6
> might be out? (a few months? a few years?) Just helps in trying to make
> a decision of whether I should wait and stick with 2.4.x or make the jump.
> And if I do make the jump will likely bring an ebuild to the gentoo tree.
I've found 2.5 to be very stable (although I have managed to crash it a
few times, it was always reproducable and ended up being fixed in the
latest CVS tree), but if you're worried about losing everything in your
X session because fvwm crashed (e.g. you exec it from your .xsession),
you might find this shell snippet handy:
At the end of my ~/.xsession, I have:
while [ 1 ]; do
fvwm
RET="$?"
if [ "$RET" = 0 -o "$RET" = 1 ]; then
break
fi
if [ "$RET" -gt 128 ]; then
SIGNAL=" (signal $((RET - 128))"
else
SIGNAL=
fi
xmessage "fvwm returned with exit code $RET$SIGNAL"
done
This pops up an xmessage if fvwm exits abnormally explaining what
happened and then restarts it.
>
> 4) is there a way to search the ML archive?
http://www.mail-archive.com/fvwm_at_hpc.uh.edu/ has a search
form--unfortunately, it doesn't work. Your best bet is probably google
as parv suggested.
> Ken
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Ben Winslow <rain_at_bluecherry.net>
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Received on Sun Apr 13 2003 - 16:59:31 BST