On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 12:58:06PM +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to use FvwmButtons (Fvwm 2.5.10) as some sort of systray. That
> is, I'm trying to get it to swallow small docklet windows some
> applications provide (e.g. the jabber client psi). I wrote a small example
> configuration for that matter:
> 
> ################## FvwmButtons button-bar ################################
> KillModule FvwmButtons
> DestroyModuleConfig FvwmButtons: *
> *FvwmButtons: Geometry 66x22-1+296
> *FvwmButtons: Back #484048
> *FvwmButtons: Fore steelblue
> *FvwmButtons: Rows 1
> *FvwmButtons: Columns 3
> *FvwmButtons: BoxSize smart
> *FvwmButtons: (1x1, Swallow(NoClose, NoOld, Kill) "psidock")
                              ^^^^^^^         ^^^^

Note that the (No)Kill setting has no effect when NoClose is used.

> Module FvwmButtons
> ##########################################################################
> 
> When I (re)start Fvwm, everything works fine: FvwmButtons appears, and as
> soon as I start psi, the docklet gets swallowed. However, when I close psi
> and restart it later, the docklet will not get swallowed again, but
> instead float somewhere on the screen, like any other window.

> Is that a known limitation I can only avoid by not closing psi
> after I opened it for the first time, or am I missing something? 

It's a limitation nobody thought of.  I'll add an option
SwallowNew that is like NoRespawn, but if a matching window
appears on its own, the new window is swallowed.

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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