On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 12:59:46PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 10:12:22AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 10:04:51PM +0200, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote:
On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 05:25:40PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
And I also noticed that if I define a MiniIcon style for the
window and run the scripts too, the mini icon is displayed on top
of the real icon. I wonder if that's a bug or if it's a secret
feature that I could not find in the documentation yet.
The function I've posted? Well the aim is to get something similar to
what MacOSX does.
Oh, that's something your function does. I didn't even read the
image processing functions. :-)
Let me explain the whole history. I borrowed the
idea from here:
http://zensites.net/fvwm/guide/advanced_functions.html
And combined it with what I've read in the fvwm.org FAQ:
http://www.fvwm.org/documentation/faq/#toc_7.18
Note that Thomas put two versions in the FAQ, the first using
DestrowWindowStyle and the second using SetEnv.
Actually, it was me who put Q7.18 into the FAQ. I cannot remember
who wrote these functions in the first place, though. ;-)
I got the thing working (the function I've pasted in my second message),
I simplified a bit the pipe commands (used just import) and instead of
icons like the guy of the first site did I used mini icons at the top of
the thumbnail. The result I got was:
http://roquesor.com/Downloads/fvwm_desktop.png
Nice.
The problem came because, time ago I'd borrowed from some place (I don't
remember from where) a ShowDesktop function, I modified it a bit too:
DestroyFunc ShowDesktop
AddToFunc ShowDesktop
+ I SendToModule FvwmAnimate pause
+ I All (AcceptsFocus, CurrentPage, Iconic, State 1) RestoreDesktop
+ I TestRc (Match) Break
+ I All (AcceptsFocus, CurrentPage, !Iconic, !State 1) ThisWindow State 1
True
+ I All (AcceptsFocus, CurrentPage, !Iconic, State 1) Thumbnail
^
(replaced with
Iconify)
+ I SendToModule FvwmAnimate play
DestroyFunc RestoreDesktop
AddToFunc RestoreDesktop
+ I SendToModule FvwmAnimate pause
+ I All (AcceptsFocus, CurrentPage, Iconic, State 1, !Focused) Iconify
+ I All (AcceptsFocus, CurrentPage, Iconic, State 1) Iconify
+ I All (AcceptsFocus, CurrentPage, State 1) ThisWindow State 1 False
+ I SendToModule FvwmAnimate play
Thumbnail was too slow for this function, the idea is ShowDesktop to be
instantaneous. Hence I put here Iconify. I forgot DeThumbnail
function :-), FvwmEvent reseted the icon each time the application was
de-iconified that's why the icon setted in styles worked just the first
time and the IconOverride was ignored.
Oh, I see. MoveToDesk should work better and faster and not
trigger any unwanted application behaviour on iconification:
--
addtofunc showdesktop
+ i all (currentdesk, !iconic) movetodesk 42
addtofunc restoredesktop
+ i gotodesk 42
+ i all (currentdesk) movetodesk -42
+ i gotodesk -42
--
The restoration function is a bit complicated because at the
moment you cannot say all (desk 42) ...; you can only check for
the current desk. Note that sticky windows are not affected. If
that is necessary, you would have to unstick them, store their
sticky status in one of the windowstate flags and restore their
stickyness in the restoredesktop function. I'm to lazy to do that
now, but if you would like to see how to do that, just ask.
Wow! Sorry, for butting in, but is there a link where all this is
explained for the layman?
I've tried reading the man page - not easy! :(
Being me a layman too I ignore how all this functionality was added to
FVWM. I agree that to be really accessible it should go with a book
analog to The C Programming Language by Dennis Ritchie :-).
Start like me, cutting, pasting and using your intuition.
--
Walter
