I want to perform actions based on the current position of a window. I was expecting to to use the (conditions) syntax, but I can't seem to find a way to examine a window's position. I was imagining:
ThisWindow ($[w.x] >= 0, $[w.x] < 400) do something ... but it seems not to be available. Any suggestions? My particular scenario is that I usually work with fairly fixed window positions; I have Alt-Left bound to move the current window left by a fixed number of pixels, and Alt-Right to move it right. However, this only keeps things nice when all the window positions are the same width and also doesn't prevent me moving a window off the edge of the display. On some monitor sizes I do not have the same widths for adjacent windows; my core scheme involves 80-column terminals (400 pixels wide) tiled hroizontally. On a 1600 pixel wide display that gets me 4. On my 1400 pixel laptop (and other not 400 factored) I want 400 pixel terminals, except for the one that spans the middle of the monitor, which I pad to include whatever the remainder would be. This gives me a "wide" monitor in the middle which is often handy. The result of this is that my common window placements are somewhat like arbitrary tab stops. On a 400/600/400 layout I want to move a window from the left position to the middle with Alt-Right, and from the middle to the right also with Alt-Right. And resize it. Now, these "tab stops" are computed by a little python program when i start FVWM and it also emits the FVWM commands to position and size. So I have no problem bulk emitting a lot of special purpose functions to move a window to arbitrary tab stops. However, what I don't have is a way to decide _what_ to do based on the current window's position. The only method I can think of right now involves a call to PipeRead to run an external program to emit the move command, like: PipeRead "what-to-do,what-to-do? $w.x $w.y $w.dx $w.dy" which feels cumbersome. Can I test this stuff inside FVWM? Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ You see: Mr. Drogo, he married poor Miss Primula Brandybuck. She was our Mr. Bilbo's first cousin on the mother's side (her mother being the youngest of the Old Took's daughters); and Mr. Drogo was his second cousin. So Mr. Frodo is his first *and* second cousin, once removed either way, as the saying is, if you follow me. - the Gaffer, _Lord_of_the_Rings_
