Re: Focus tab hilight?

Thanks for the hints everybody.  I was thrown off track by a bunch of
apparently irrelevant window.tab.label settings in the Wintery style.
I tried commenting those out and following Schoene's suggestion,
but that didn't help.

I then played around with various styles and found that some of them
(eg. BlueGelSwirl) had the behavior I wanted.  So clearly something's
set wrong in the style I was using (Wintery).  I compared the style
configs and then I realized that Wintery had these two lines:

window.label.focus:           parentrelative
window.label.unfocus:         parentrelative

Apparently, this is what was causing my problem. It means that a group
of tabs will inherit the look of the titlebar AS A GROUP, which is
exactly what I don't want.

So I deleted those lines;
I copied all the window.title.focus settings to window.label.focus;
I copied all the window.title.unfocus settings to
window.title.unfocus;
restarted fluxbox, and now I have the behavior I want.
Perfect!

Thanks again!

-PW

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:48:42AM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Paul Winkler wrote:
> 
> >I seem to recall that long ago, Fluxbox had a style option for
> >hilighting not the entire currently focused titlebar, but only the
> >currently focused tab.  And then this feature went away (or I can't
> >find it).
> >
> >For example, right now I have three terminals tabbed together, but I
> >can't really tell which one has focus - they look the same.  It looks
> >like this:
> >http://slinkp.com/~paul/fluxbox_cant_tell.png
> >
> >I want it to look something like this instead, so when the first tab
> >is focused, only that tab is hilighted:
> >http://slinkp.com/~paul/fluxbox_what_i_want.png
> >(that's a quick sloppy mockup made with gimp)
> >
> >Does this feature exist?
> >
> >I remember that feature from *somewhere*, and I really liked it... it
> >was very handy when having lots of terminals and alt-tabbing between
> >them.  Possibly I'm thinking of another window manager? Long ago I
> >used blackbox, and various other things before that.
> 
> in my style
> 
> window.label.unfocus.textColor:     darkgrey
> window.label.unfocus:           flat gradient vertical pixmapA
> window.label.unfocus.pixmap:        title.xpm
> window.label.unfocus.color:     #FFFFFF
> window.label.unfocus.colorTo:       #000000
> window.label.focus:         flat gradient vertical pixmap
> window.label.focus.pixmap:      title.xpm
> window.label.focus.color:       #FFFFFF
> window.label.focus.colorTo:     #FFFFFF
> window.label.focus.textColor:       black
> 
> so text in the focused tab is black others are darkgrey,
> the color/To things are useless because of the pixmap.
> 
> schoene gruesze
> 
> -- 

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Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com

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