Michael Großer <michael.gros...@gmx.de> writes: > Michael Großer wrote: >> Dan Espen wrote: >>> lee <l...@yagibdah.de> writes: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> the subject pretty much says it: >>>> >>>> Can I somehow make it so that fvwm ignores particular windows when >>>> figuring out where to place a new one? >>> >>> Not that I know of. >>> >>> What are you trying to do? >> >> Without awaiting the answer about what is tried to do: >> >> If no official way helps, there is always a dirty but "creative" >> approach. >> >> - Minimize the particular windows that you want to ignore >> - Hide their icons >> - Place your new window >> - Unhide the hidden icons >> - Reopen the minimized windows >> >> The process would perhaps have an optical effect that is not so good >> looking, but the "creative" approach could solve your problem if no other >> expert delivers a better solution :-) > > Another idea: > > - Move the particular windows to a desktop that solely exists for that purpose > - Place your new window > - Move the cleared away windows back to their original place
Thanks, these are good ideas :) I haven't figured out how to use multiple desks, though. I tried that once and apparently got multiple desks just by naming some, but no way to switch between them. What I'm trying to do is achieving more reasonable window placement. I found that one small window can make it so that a larger window is not placed the way I would consider reasonable. I found that out by manually moving the small window around to see what placement I would get and concluded that if fvwm would ignore the small window when it figures out the placement of the larger one, the larger window would be placed well. So I wondered if I could have fvwm ignore the small window. Now you suggest to move the small window out of the way automatically rather than manually --- something I haven't thought of :) Is there some way to make it so that a function which moves the small window out of the way is always called when fvwm is about to figure out where to place a window? And how do I prevent this function from being called when the window that is moved out of the way is placed? (In most cases, I probably won't need that because I'm using starter functions to start applications which create windows, but applications can create windows by themselves ...) -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.
