On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:19:35AM -0400, Rouben Rostamian wrote: > Dan Espen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Rouben Rostamian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The fvwm man page repeatedly refers to CirculateHit and CirculateSkip > > > styles, but does not define them. At least I was unable to locate > > > their definitions. Would someone please give a brief explanation > > > of what these styles do? > > > > > > I have looked at the man pages that come with versions 2.2.5 and 2.5.7. > > > > The Circulate commands are described in the context of the commands > > they affect. Read about "All", "Next", "Prev", etc. > > (the conditional commands). > > I think the descriptions are somewhat circular (no pun!) unfortunately. > Here is what we read under the heading of Current: > > Current [(conditions)] command > .... > The Current command implies the conditions > CirculateHit, CirculateHitIcon and CirculateHitShaded. > ... > > Thus we are told that the Current command implies the condition > CirculateHit. Neither here nor elsewhere is a description > of what that phrase means.
The options are described for the "Next" command. I managed to screw up the cross references in the man page. The options are now described for the "Current" command to which all other conditional commands eventually have a cross reference. > Paragraphs corresponding to Prev, Next, etc., refer to the > paragraph corresponding to Current. That is not of much help. > > > By giving Circulate skip to a window, you can get one of these > > conditional command to ignore the window. You might use this for > > a clock as an example. > > > > That way, a command like this might be useful: > > > > All (!CirculateHit) iconify on > > Thanks for the description and example. I think I understand it > a little better now. I will have to experiment a bit to see if > I have gotten the real hang of it. Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
