On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 17:46:20 +0100 rhia...@falu.nl wrote: in response to my request,
> > Would it help to modify the iconmanager so that in addition to showing > > which windows are open and which shut it also shows which one has the > > focus, e.g. using a colour change, selectable by user, as happens in the > > workspace manager when I move around workspaces? (Using CTRL+L or CTRL+R) > At the risk of telling you something you already know (but want > differently), it already does that. The focused window has a thicker > black border than the unfocused windows. Ahhh! It did not happen for me because I had never noticed the option that needed be added to the Colors list (it's not one of the ancient commented out entries in my .ctwmrc either): IconManagerHighlight So I have now added IconManagerHighlight "red" and it seems to work. I suppose I might have found it sooner if it had been called IconManagerEntryFocusedHighlight ???? (I may choose a more suitable colour for my screen which is all mostly black shades of grey and white -- I am partly colour blind anyway.) > Now that I'm looking at the icon manager anyway, another thing that > might be nice if its order reflected the window ring order, or that of > the yet-to-be-created window LIFO order. Or if you could rearrange the > order of the window-icons inside it by mouse or by f.functions. > (Not that that would be trivial, since the icon managers of the > different workspaces have a weird interdependent data structure and the > code to update it is weird and hard to comprehend). My main requirement is to have a consistent application-independent mapping between labels in the iconmanager and windows, a mapping that survices opening and closing windows, switching tabs, and killing and restarting a browser that remembers which windows and tabs it had open previously. It should also work across browsers. I suspect the problem is a defect in the Xwindow or some other related specification. (I am not an expert on style specifications!) Anyhow, you have solved one of my problems. Thanks. Aaron http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs