Re: FVWM: preventing application focus and "on top" or "front"

From: Johan Svedberg <winkle_at_acc.umu.se>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 23:37:24 +0200

* May 07 23:35 Johan Svedberg <winkle_at_acc.umu.se>:
> * May 07 22:48 Casey Crabb <crabbkw_at_nafai.dyndns.org>:
> > Is there a way to configure fvwm to forbid application focus and "on
> > top" or "front" unless I specifically take action to focus the window
> > or bring it to the front?
> >
> > I have a habit of starting several applications, then going back to
> > web-browsing for a while; and would like to find a stopping point in my
> > web-browsing before dealing with whatever application I started. I just
> > want the application to start and behave itself quietly in the
> > background.
> >
> > The faq wasn't revealing any easy way to do this, and google wasn't
> > much help either.
> >
> > Is it possible to do this, is there a reason I'm not thinking of for
> > why this wouldn't be desirable?
>
> Not sure that I understand you right, but I think you are looking for
> StartsOnPage (or StartsOnDesk) which is described in the FAQ (7.3).

I forgot to mention that you probably want to use this together with
SkipMapping which also is mentioned in the FAQ (7.3).

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