On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:19:35AM -0400, Rouben Rostamian wrote:
> Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com> wrote:
> > "Rouben Rostamian" <rostamian_at_umbc.edu> writes:
> > > The fvwm man page repeatedly refers to CirculateHit and CirculateSkip
> > > styles, but does not define them. At least I was unable to locate
> > > their definitions. Would someone please give a brief explanation
> > > of what these styles do?
> > >
> > > I have looked at the man pages that come with versions 2.2.5 and 2.5.7.
> >
> > The Circulate commands are described in the context of the commands
> > they affect. Read about "All", "Next", "Prev", etc.
> > (the conditional commands).
>
> I think the descriptions are somewhat circular (no pun!) unfortunately.
> Here is what we read under the heading of Current:
>
> Current [(conditions)] command
> ....
> The Current command implies the conditions
> CirculateHit, CirculateHitIcon and CirculateHitShaded.
> ...
>
> Thus we are told that the Current command implies the condition
> CirculateHit. Neither here nor elsewhere is a description
> of what that phrase means.
The options are described for the "Next" command. I managed to
screw up the cross references in the man page. The options are
now described for the "Current" command to which all other
conditional commands eventually have a cross reference.
> Paragraphs corresponding to Prev, Next, etc., refer to the
> paragraph corresponding to Current. That is not of much help.
>
> > By giving Circulate skip to a window, you can get one of these
> > conditional command to ignore the window. You might use this for
> > a clock as an example.
> >
> > That way, a command like this might be useful:
> >
> > All (!CirculateHit) iconify on
>
> Thanks for the description and example. I think I understand it
> a little better now. I will have to experiment a bit to see if
> I have gotten the real hang of it.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Tue Jun 17 2003 - 03:11:15 BST