On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:40:03PM +0100, Tim Phipps wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Did I miss something when I concluded that FvwmBacker can no > > longer do what it did before? > > No, if FvwmBacker does what the man page says: > > *FvwmBackerCommand (Desk d, Page x y) command > Specifies the command to execute when the viewport > matches the arguments for the desk d, page x coordinate > and y coordinate. Any or all of these three numeric > arguments can be replaced with an asterisk (*) to indi- > cate that any value matches, in this case Desk or Page > parts can be skipped. > > Note these three lines are equivalent: > > *FvwmBackerCommand (Page * *, Desk *) -solid navy > *FvwmBackerCommand () -solid navy > *FvwmBackerCommand -solid navy > > plus this: > > There is continued support for the now deprecated option: > > *FvwmBackerDesk d command > > It is functionally equivalent to using an asterisk for > both page coordinates with *FvwmBackerCommand. > > So "*FvwmBackerDesk 0 ..." gets translated to "*FvwmBackerCommand (Page > * *, Desk 0) ..." which isn't quite the same thing. There seems to be no > way to stop FvwmBacker doing its thing when the page changes and the > desk matches. > > I think we should change the behaviour of FvwmBacker when the Page > specifers are not included so that it _doesn't_ do its thing if only the > page changes. Similarly if the Desk specifier is not included it > _shouldn't_ do its thing when only the desk changes. Then translating > "*FvwmBackerDesk 0 ..." into "*FvwmBackerCommand (Desk 0) ..." would > work in the old way.
Done. Omitting either Desk or Page now indicates to ignore desk or page changes. FvwmBackerDesk n ... is equivalent to FvwmBackerCommand (Desk n) ... Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
