Thomas Adam <tho...@fvwm.org> [2017-04-12 17:21:55 +0100]: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 09:47:54AM -0600, Glenn Golden wrote: > > Is it possible to force a given window to appear and remain only on a > > particular page? (Effectively, something like "StartsOnPage", except it > > would really be "StaysOnPage", i.e. the page assignment holds for all time, > > not just upon initial mapping.) > > > > The need for this arises as follows: I'm running xv with the -poll option, > > in order to periodically update the display of an image as the underlying > > image file changes. Desired behavior is that the image only ever appears on > > fvwm page (x,y). When I try to obtain this behavior via: > > > > Style myxv StartsOnPage x y, SkipMapping > > > > and then invoking xv as > > > > $ xv -name myxv -poll [myfile] > > > > it starts on page (x,y) as desired, but then later, when the image file > > changes, the 'new' (i.e., updated) window always pops up on the current > > page. > > You'd have to use FvwmEvent to do this. Listen on the new_page event and > either iconify or deiconify the window as appropriate. >
Thanks! I will take a shot at it with that approach, thank you. Glenn
