FVWM: New Firefox tabs and workspace switching

2013-08-26 Thread sisyphus
I want to prevent desktops/workspaces from being switched by newly created windows. And for most new windows, doing this Style * SkipMapping will prevent the switching of desktops. But with Firefox, whenever a new tab is opened, the desktop will still switch over to the Firefox workspace.

Re: FVWM: New Firefox tabs and workspace switching

2013-08-26 Thread Thomas Adam
On 26 August 2013 10:47, sisyphus sisyphus...@gmail.com wrote: So I must ask:- 1] Can someone please tell me why new Firefox tabs don't observe the SkipMapping style above. It does. SkipMapping has nothing to do with switching focus after the window has been mapped. 2] What else

Re: FVWM: New Firefox tabs and workspace switching

2013-08-26 Thread sisyphus
On 26/08/13 22:03, Thomas Adam wrote: SkipMapping has nothing to do with switching focus after the window has been mapped. But the FVWM manpage describes SkipMapping like this: SkipMapping tells fvwm not to switch to the desk the window is on when it gets mapped initially (useful with

Re: FVWM: New Firefox tabs and workspace switching

2013-08-26 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:19:05AM +1200, sisyphus wrote: On 26/08/13 22:03, Thomas Adam wrote: SkipMapping has nothing to do with switching focus after the window has been mapped. But the FVWM manpage describes SkipMapping like this: SkipMapping tells fvwm not to switch to the desk

Re: FVWM: New Firefox tabs and workspace switching

2013-08-26 Thread sisyphus
On 27/08/13 11:25, Thomas Adam wrote: It's almost as if I have you the answer. I never said to do this. Your confusion here is because you've decided to conflate two completely different concepts and treat them the same. They're not. Fair enough. Thanks again for the answer. -Grant