Hello, for a long time I've been using a small patch to fvwm 2.4.8, (which now is adopted to 2.4.18 and 2.5.10, too) and would like to ask if other people find it usefull too (so it could be included into the fvwm source one day):
Description:
The patch adds the following syntax to Condition checks to selectively
select a match (or mismatch) of a name, icon name, resource name or class:
%r==RESOURCE
%c==CLASS
%i==ICONNAME
%n==NAME
%r!=RESOURCE
%c!=CLASS
%i!=ICONNAME
%n!=NAME
With this patch it's possible to implement the following:
AddToFunc FocusAndRaise
+ "I" Focus
+ "I" Raise
AddToFunc CycleFunc
+ I Current (%c==Maker) $0 (%c==Maker,$1) $2
+ I Current (%c==Gimp) $0 (%c==Gimp,$1) $2
+ I Current (%c==Sylpheed) $0 (%c==Sylpheed,$1) $2
+ I Current (%c==MiXViews) $0 (%c==MiXViews,$1) $2
+ I Current (%c==Zmail) $0 (%c==Zmail,$1) $2
+ I Current (%c==XTerm %r==RTerm) $0 (%c==XTerm,%r==RTerm,$1) $2
+ I Current (%c==XTerm %r==TMan) $0 (%c==XTerm,%r==TMan,$1) $2
+ I Current (Ddd*) $0 (Ddd*,$1) $2
+ I Current (%c==XTerm %r==Ddd) $0 (%c!=XTerm,Ddd*,$1) $2
+ I Current (%c==XTerm %r!=RTerm %r!=TMan %r!=Ddd) $0
(%c==XTerm,%r!=RTerm,%r!=TMan,%r!=Ddd,$1) $2
+ I Current (%c!=XTerm %c!=Zmail %c!=Ddd %c!=Gimp %c!=Maker %c!=Sylpheed
%c!=MiXViews) $0 (%r==$r,$1) $2
Key "w" WFST 4 Current CycleFunc Next !Iconic,CurrentDesk FocusAndRaise
Key "w" WFST S4 Current CycleFunc Prev !Iconic,CurrentDesk FocusAndRaise
thus giving a possibility to cycle trough the windows of the currently focused
application, where the application is selected on its resource or class
(depending: some apps, for example the gimp or sylpheed, use the same class
for all of their windows, where most other applications are using the same
resource for all of their windows).
False matches with a random title or icon name, or missing matches are avoided
which seems impossible in practice using simpler methods like
AddToFunc SimpleCycleFunc
+ I Current ($r) $0 ($r,$1) $2
Key "w" WFST 4 Current SimpleCycleFunc Next !Iconic,CurrentDesk FocusAndRaise
The patch has been written since I didn't see a simple way to implement this
functionality (bound in the example above to "w" + (Shift) Mod4), at least not
without having to invoke external programs.
I don't care much about the current syntax. So if people would like (and
incooporate) the patch feel free to make improvement suggestions.
The patch has been tested successfully with fvwm 2.4.8 for more than a year
(8 hours per day usage) and fvwm 2.5.10 for about two weeks.
Markus Schwarzenberg
Attachments: patches (diff -u) for fvwm 2.4.18 and 2.5.10
special_conditions-2.4.18.diff.gz
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special_conditions-2.5.10.diff.gz
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