Hello everyone,
I'm a pretty new Fvwm user, but I feel like I'm really getting the hang of it. I've been putting a lot of time into my Fvwm config recently, and I've finally hit a road block. My current goal is to have Urgent windows flash quietly without steeling focus, and I've done it. I use two alternating functions, each of which swaps the colorsets and then Schedules the other one. It works great. The problem is that I can't see it from other pages because FvwmPager only updates the color when the window has focus. If the flashing window has focus, the pager updates fine, but that doesn't really help for what I'm trying to do with it.
Because of the focus thing, I tried writing a "blipfocus" function that uses states to save the current window and then jump the focus to the urgent window and back. That didn't work unless I added a delay before bringing the focus back (FvwmPager uses polling for that I guess). Again, switching the focus for any non-negligible ammount of time undermines what I was trying to do in the first place.
Doing a window operation like WindowShade or Iconify updates the shape in the pager, but still not the color, and when I switch to that page the haywire window is a really ugly effect So it's not really an ideal solution, but it's what I'm using for now.
So my question is:
Is there anyway to force FvwmPager to update the color sets (and possibly the mini icon) of an unfocused window?
Any suggestions are welcome. Or, if you have a completely different idea for urgent window handling I'd be interested to hear that too. And if anyone needs code for periodically alternating a window's style, I can hook you up ;)
Thanks, Mike
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