Re: FVWM: Task Bar Disappearing

2011-05-17 Thread elliot s 
<<
 My FvwmIconMan buttons for iconified windows are always flat, whether
  I set IconButton or not.  My non-iconified window buttons react to the
  settings just fine.
  I'm running 2.7.0.

 If i remove Colorset and IconColorset and instead use Background and
 IconButton colors, that gave me the relief for iconified windows.
>>

False alarm.
Apparently, my IconColorset had a color the same as the relief.

Re: FVWM: Task Bar Disappearing

2011-05-17 Thread elliot s 
<<
My FvwmIconMan buttons for iconified windows are always flat, whether
 I set IconButton or not.  My non-iconified window buttons react to the
 settings just fine.
 I'm running 2.7.0.
>>

If i remove Colorset and IconColorset and instead use Background and
IconButton colors, that gave me the relief for iconified windows.

Re: FVWM: ButtonPress, ButtonRelease propagation

2011-05-17 Thread Thomas Adam 
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 07:22:29PM -0700, Lorinc Hever wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have question about ButtonPress, ButtonRelease release propagation.
> 
> FVWM version 2.5.1

Get a newer version (2.6.1).

> We have a mouse and a trackball attached to our system. We have
> applications interested in processing the trackball event in a special
> way so it's interested in the ButtonPress and ButtonRelease events.
> 
> We found that in add_window.c fvwm unconditionally turns of the event
> propagation of these events
> 
>   attributes.do_not_propagate_mask = ButtonPressMask | ButtonReleaseMask;
>   XChangeWindowAttributes(dpy, FW_W(fw), valuemask, &attributes);
> 
> Could you help us what's the reason behind it? And what consequences
> it might have if we remove this limitation?

It comes from TWM, actually.  I suppose it's there so that we don't pass a
button click to the window would if the window somehow disappears at this
point.

You'll need to be a lot more specific as to what it is you're trying to do.

-- Thomas Adam

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