On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 04:39:26PM -0400, Chris Siebenmann wrote:
> I am currently using a somewhat hacked version of fvwm 2.4.20 and I
> would like to move to fvwm 2.5.x (for whatever x is current when I get
> all of the pieces working). One of the stumbling blocks is duplicating
> one piece of icon placement behavior in my current setup.
>
> I do not have an icon box ('Style * IconBox none'). How I want icon
> placement to work is this:
Why? Just let it be the default (which is the whole screen).
> - when a window is iconified for the first time (and does not have any
> sort of icon placement specified), the icon is put right under the
> mouse cursor.
You can do this with a state, windowstyle, and FvwmEvent. Here's a rough
outline -- oh, and it assumes 2.5.X, since you can't do this at all easily
on 2.4.X. Good luck.
# All windows, regardless, get state 1 which is removed when iconified.
Style * State 1
DestroyModuleConfig A:*
*A: iconify SomeFunc
*A: deiconify SomeOtherFunc
AddToFunc StartFunction I Module FvwmEvent A
DestroyFunc A
AddToFunc A
+ I ThisWindow (State 1) MoveIconWindow
+ I TestRc (NoMatch) Break
DestroyFunc MoveIconWindow
AddToFunc MoveIconWindow
+ I Move m+0 m+0
+ I ... (other things?)
DestroyFunc SomeOtherFunc
AddToFunc SomeOtherFunc
+ I ThisWindow (State 1) WindowStyle 1 False
... which is far from idea -- something would have to set the state of the
window to state 1 again if the placement of the icon was to go back to
being under the mouse (unless the window was then subsequently closed
anyway. YMMV.)
> - when a window is iconified after that, the icon reappears wherever
> it was last.
See above.
> I can see how to use a user function to handle the first-time icon
> placement (I think; just use a function that does Iconify + Move to
> $[pointer.x] $[pointer.y]), but the bit I'm stuck on is how to get icons
> to stay where they are after that. Is there a conditional or a command
> that would apply for this?
See above.
> (It looks like $[i.x] et al are only defined if the window is iconified,
> so one can't abuse them to determine whether the icon has already been
> positioned somewhere before the Iconify happens.)
See above.
> The other option is that I could add a new conditional that tests on
> IS_ICON_MOVED() et al; would people find such a patch generally useful
> and interesting for the main line code?
No thanks. Not for 2.4.0, and not for 2.5.X, FVWM's in a feature freeze,
and 2.4.X receives no new features anyway.
See above. :)
-- Thomas Adam
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