On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 02:07:26PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Sun, 6 May 2001, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> 
> > > Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > >
> > > Key Tab         A       M       Next (!Iconify CurrentScreen) Focus
> > > Key Tab         A       MS      Prev (!Iconify CurrentScreen) Focus
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > BTW, it should be "Iconic" condition not "Iconify", also there is no
> > > > "CurrentScreen" condition, but "CurrentDesk" or "CurrentPage".
> > > 
> > > That's nice. Is there any "compiler" or such to check for irrelevant
> > > conditions?
> > 
> > The problem is that there are no irrelevant conditions.  When fvwm
> > encounters a string that does not match any of the predefined
> > tokens in a condition, it is taken as the name/class/resource of a
> > window.  In the case of the lines above fvwm has looked for
> > windows with the title "!Iconify" (and has silently ignored the
> > CurrentScreen part).  So the correct lines are
> > 
> > Key Tab A M  Next (!Iconic CurrentPage) Focus
> > Key Tab A MS Prev (!Iconic CurrentPage) Focus
> > 
> > (or CurrentDesk instead of CurrentPage).
> > 
> 
> I believe that this is not the problem, as I have tried it also with the
> simpler condition '(*)'.

Believe it or not, it *is* the problem ;-)  But what I said was not
100% correct.  "!Iconify" matches any string in title/class/resource
except "Iconify" of course.  I guess you did not try the lines I
wrote.  They do work as expected.

> If what you say is correct then I would not have been able to use alt-tab
> to change focus to any window. But this is not the case.

Right.  I wasn't correct, but that does not mean the lines do not
work.

> Anyway, I gave up and installed IceWM. Maybe I'll try encountering fvwm
> sometime in the future. It looks great and configurable, but when I can't
> work in a decent manner for a cupple of days, I rather using something
> that works, even though it lacks some of the features.

Well, if you insist on not reading the manual ... ;-)

Bye

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

P.S.: Please always reply to the mailing list, not to my private
address.

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