Re: FVWM: Trouble with transient windows
Thomas Adam wrote (Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 03:38:16PM +): > On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 08:22:16PM +0530, Mandar Mitra wrote: > > I would like the transient windows to not affect focus at all. I looked at > > the manual page for the FPGrabFocusTransient, FPGrabFocusTransient, > > FPReleaseFocusTransient, and similar options, but I couldn't figure out > > what I need to do to get the behaviour I want. > > > > Is this something that I can take care of within fvwm? Or should I ask the > > ipe developer about this? > > I suppose you're referring to something like this: > > Style * RaiseTransient > Style * LowerTransient > Style * StackTransientParent Probably not (as far as I can tell from the manpage). At the moment, the only thing that I want is that transients should never get focus. Is that something I can control from fvwm, or does that need to be fixed in the respective applications? If that's not possible, I would like a transient to release focus when it goes away. I thought FPReleaseFocus, FPReleaseFocusTransient and FPOverrideReleaseFocus controlled this behaviour, but I don't understand exactly how. I have Style * MouseFocusClickRaises, GrabFocusTransientOff, !FPGrabFocusTransient, FPReleaseFocusTransient, FPOverrideReleaseFocus but that's not giving me what I want. -mandar
Re: FVWM: Trouble with transient windows
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 08:22:16PM +0530, Mandar Mitra wrote: > I would like the transient windows to not affect focus at all. I looked at > the manual page for the FPGrabFocusTransient, FPGrabFocusTransient, > FPReleaseFocusTransient, and similar options, but I couldn't figure out what > I need to do to get the behaviour I want. > > Is this something that I can take care of within fvwm? Or should I ask the > ipe developer about this? I suppose you're referring to something like this: Style * RaiseTransient Style * LowerTransient Style * StackTransientParent -- Thomas
FVWM: Alt-Tab and WindowList
I have Alt-Tab bound as follows: Key Tab A M WindowList (CurrentPage) CurrentAtEnd,IconifiedAtEnd,...,SelectOnRelease Alt_L I'd like windows to be listed in most recently used order, and there are a number of fvwm related Web pages that state that is what "normally" happens, but what I'm observing is the following. As long as I'm switching back and forth between Window A and Window B, things work well. I also have some other windows (all pdf viewers displaying different files) on the same page. If I take a look at one of them, I would expect A, B and the focused pdf viewer window to occupy the top 3 slots, but that's not what happens. Either A or B is positioned way down in the list. I thought CurrentAtEnd might be messing up fvwm's sorting order, but this happens even without that option, and I can't make sense of the order in which windows are listed. Can anyone offer any insights / workarounds please? Many thanks, as always! -mandar
FVWM: Trouble with transient windows
Hi, I suppose I'm having trouble correctly understanding the options for transient windows. Here's the scenario in which I'd like fvwm to behave differently. I have 3 windows on a page: emacs, a pdf viewer, and ipe (for drawing diagrams). Ipe sometimes pops up a little window (only borders, no titlebar or buttons) that says "Waiting for external editor" (meaning emacs), and grabs focus. I have to manually focus emacs before I can type anything. When I quit emacs, the above window goes away. Its place is taken by another "Compiling..." type window -- again, only borders, no titlebar, and this grabs focus for its brief lifetime. When it goes away (almost immediately), none of my windows has focus. I would like the transient windows to not affect focus at all. I looked at the manual page for the FPGrabFocusTransient, FPGrabFocusTransient, FPReleaseFocusTransient, and similar options, but I couldn't figure out what I need to do to get the behaviour I want. Is this something that I can take care of within fvwm? Or should I ask the ipe developer about this? I'm using 2.6.7-3. Many thanks for any pointers! -mandar
