FVWM: Causing "firefox" to start in particular desktop page

2018-02-27 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, since a few days I'm trying to set up "fvwm" in such a way that a "fire- fox" window is always opened in page "0 0 1" rather than in page "0 0 0" from where I'm issuing the "firefox" command. From the manual page and the FAQ I took the suggestion to use Style Firefox*

Re: FVWM:

2018-02-28 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Michelle, On Tuesday, 2018-02-27 21:44:13 +0200, you wrote: > ... > It does not even work, because the old FvwmTaskbar was AutoHiding after > it lost the focus, I'm not quite sure what exactly you want to achieve, but "FvwmTaskBar" DOES support auto-hiding, if you ask it to do so.

[SOLVED] Re: FVWM: Causing "firefox" to start in particular desktop page

2018-02-28 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Dominik, On Tuesday, 2018-02-27 14:36:45 +0100, you wrote: > ... > P.S.: I have this in my config: > > Style Firefox* StartsOnPage 0 1, SkipMapping, MaxWindowSize 99 97 > Style Firefox* fixedpposition The "FixedPPosition" did the trick! Thank you for the quick help :-) > Style

Re: FVWM: Style ... SkipMapping

2019-11-18 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, On Saturday, 2019-11-16 16:42:01 +, Hegel3DReloaded wrote: > ... > You need to leave this page. Well, when I'm there, I'll have to leave this page. But I don't want to get there in the first place. That's why I used the "SkipMapping" style which I THOUGHT would prevent exactly

Re: FVWM: Style ... SkipMapping

2019-11-18 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Lucio, On Monday, 2019-11-18 12:03:58 +0100, you wrote: > ... > The only point is do you really mean "page" or "desktop" ? As can be seen from the "Style Firefox StartsOnPage 0 0 1" line I mean a particular page on a particular desktop. > ... > I have this (actually also a vestigial FF line) >

FVWM: Style ... SkipMapping

2019-11-16 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, maybe I totally misinterpret the "fvwm" manpage ... 1. What I want: During the login process on my laptop I want to fire up Firefox using a page different from the default page where my terminal window is opened. This way I can start entering commands without having

Re: FVWM: Style ... SkipMapping

2019-11-20 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Lucio, On Monday, 2019-11-18 18:52:48 +0100, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: > ... > No idea why you start an application you always want NOT from InitFunction Simply because I do NOT always want it :-) > ... > I even tried now starting firefox (not my palemoon browser which I left > running) with

Re: FVWM: Style ... SkipMapping

2019-11-20 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Lucio, On Monday, 2019-11-18 19:00:56 +0100, you wrote: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2019, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > >> Style Firefox StartsOnDesk 1, SkipMapping, NoPPosition > >> + "I" Test (Init) Exec exec /usr/bin/palemoon myhomepage > > > &g

Re: FVWM: Style ... SkipMapping

2019-11-20 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, On Tuesday, 2019-11-19 00:43:08 +, Hegel3DReloaded wrote: > ... > Your problem appeared trivial to me, but I have tried this in a test > environment and found VERY interesting behaviour: FINALLY! It started to feel like fighting windmills ... thankyou :-) >

Re: FVWM: Style ... SkipMapping

2019-11-20 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Lucio, On Wednesday, 2019-11-20 14:23:04 +0100, you wrote: > ... > No, sorry, I was not clear. It is the browser which goes straight to the > desktop designated, but I remain in the primary desktop ! Which I guess > is what you'd like. And what I get. Well, in my case it's just another page

Re: FVWM: Style ... SkipMapping

2019-11-25 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Thomas, On Wednesday, 2019-11-20 14:59:22 +, you wrote: > ... > 1. Launch firefox. When it's running, use FvwmIdent or xwininfo to ascertain > the *class* of the window. It's either going to be Firefox or something else. > If it's not 'Firefox' then you'll understand why the Style isn't

Re: FVWM: React to event "KeyPress Control_L, KeyRelease Control_L"

2020-04-13 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Dominik, On Sunday, 2020-04-12 20:53:47 +0100, you wrote: > ... > No, binding things to modifier key does not work. Thank you for this ultimate answer. At least now I know I can give up trying. Sincerely, Rainer

FVWM: React to event "KeyPress Control_L, KeyRelease Control_L"

2020-04-11 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, is there a way in Fvwm to bind some command to just pressing and immedi- ately releasing the Ctrl-key without pressing any other key? Holding down Ctrl any pressing A should NOT trigger this command. Sincerely, Rainer

FVWM: Identify window by PID?

2020-09-09 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, is there a way to identify a window by the PID of the process running in it? So I could do something along the lines of All (... ...) WarpToWindow 50 50 I didn't yet find a solution at https://www.fvwm.org/Archive/Manpages/fvwm.html I know there is the "wmctrl", but I would

Re: FVWM: React to event "KeyPress Control_L, KeyRelease Control_L"

2020-05-20 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Chris, On Monday, 2020-04-27 11:23:25 -0400, you wrote: > > ... > > Holding down Ctrl any pressing A should NOT trigger this command. > > On Linux, you can use the 'xcape' program to put together something to > do this. Thanks for pointing me to "xcape". Though I currently have plenty of

FVWM: No module "FvwmTaskBar" in Fvwm 2.6.9?

2020-08-11 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, after a routine upgrade of my Gentoo system which also updated Fvwm from version 2.6.5-r3 to 2.6.9 suddenly module "FvwmTaskBar" was missing. Since this module is very important for the way I'm using Fvwm, I had to immediately downgrade again to version 2.6.5-r3. Question: What

Re: FVWM: Get the current content of root window

2021-02-18 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Klaus, On Wednesday, 2021-02-17 18:48:45 +0100, you wrote: > ... > seting the background (root window) to some image is easy. But is there > any way to get the image content on fvwm root window back to an image? A screenshot? Something like "xwd"? Or am I misunderstanding what you want to

Re: FVWM: Get the current content of root window

2021-02-18 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Klaus, On Thursday, 2021-02-18 10:44:03 +0100, you wrote: > ... > Both just get the current visible desktop; with all windows ans other > stuff that is ontop of the root window. That's something you can do with "xwd": $ xwd -root | convert xwd:- file.png > I want to get the content of the