Hi Ethan,
In the menu, I have an off by one error. Desks should be numbered starting from
zero, not one.
There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming
things, and off-by-1 errors.
Cheers,
Ron
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From: Tapia, Ron <rd...@psu.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 1, 2021 10:13 AM
To: Ethan Raynor; fvwm
Subject: Re: FVWM: Move windows to a new desk preserving pages
Hi Ethan,
It sounds like a solution that just moves one window to another desktop while
preserving the page would work for you.
I think that the config below does what you want.
This function lets you pick a window and send it to a desktop. It appears to
preserve the page:
DestroyFunc mdesk
AddToFunc mdesk
+ I Pick
+ I MoveToDesk 0 $0
I bind my middle mouse button on the root window to a menu that I call
"Window-Ops". So I would invoke it like so:
Mouse 2 R N Menu Window-Ops Nop
AddToMenu Window-Ops "Window Ops " Title
+ "Move To Desk " Popup MoveToDesk
AddToMenu MoveToDesk "Move to Desk" Title
+ "Desk1 " Function mdesk 1
+ "Desk2 " Function mdesk 2
+ "Desk3 " Function mdesk 3
+ "Desk4 " Function mdesk 4
+ "Desk5 " Function mdesk 5
+ "Desk6 " Function mdesk 6
+ "Desk7 " Function mdesk 7
You could do something similar with a function bound to windows so that you
don't have to pick.
Cheers,
Ron
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From: Ethan Raynor <ethanrayno...@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, March 1, 2021 9:24 AM
To: fvwm
Subject: Re: FVWM: Move windows to a new desk preserving pages
Hi Dominik,
On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 1:51 PM Dominik Vogt <dominik.v...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Can you please be more precise? You're mixing the terms page,
> desk and screen which are all differet things. Could you give an
> example of the workflow? It's hard for me to imagine what you're
> actually doig that could require to move all windows from oe
> desktop (page?) to another. Why is it not good enough to make the
> windows on desk 1 sticky?
Mea culpa! i admit that i am confusing myself as well. Let me try once more.
I am using fvwm2 (2.6.9).
I have two monitors and the following config:
DesktopSize 3x3
DesktopName 0 Main
DesktopName 1 Dev
DesktopName 2 Bills
DesktopName 3 Chat
as i understand this, i now have four desktops, each with 9 pages on
them - this is what FvwmPager agrees with.
As i move between desks, i often try and stick to adding windows to
the correct desks so that i have some separation of work ("Dev" for
development, "Chat" for ms-teams, etc.) This works well for me.
But sometimes I find that I want to shift the windows from, say, the
"Dev" desk to my other monitor which is free of any windows. so i
thought i had to do it like this:
all (desk 1) movetoscreen
where i first of all open fvwmconsole on screen2 (the one i want
windows from the Dev desktop to move from) and run the command.
This works - the windows from the Dev desktop are moved to screen2,
but they don't keep the page they were on, on the new screen - every
window is now on the same page on screen2. what i want is for the
windows on the Dev desk to move across to screen2, "mirroring" the
location/page they were on screen1 with, only now, on screen2.
Does this make any sense now? i hope it does - apologies if it isn't -
and i will try again to explain
thanks all for your time.
Ethan
