Re: FVWM: Forcing a window to remain on a specific page

Glenn Golden <[email protected]> writes:

> Thomas Adam <[email protected]> [2017-04-12 17:21:55 +0100]:
>> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 09:47:54AM -0600, Glenn Golden wrote:
>> > Is it possible to force a given window to appear and remain only on a
>> > particular page?  (Effectively, something like "StartsOnPage", except it
>> > would really be "StaysOnPage", i.e. the page assignment holds for all time,
>> > not just upon initial mapping.)
>> > 
>> > The need for this arises as follows: I'm running xv with the -poll option,
>> > in order to periodically update the display of an image as the underlying
>> > image file changes. Desired behavior is that the image only ever appears on
>> > fvwm page (x,y).  When I try to obtain this behavior via:
>> > 
>> >     Style myxv StartsOnPage x y, SkipMapping
>> > 
>> > and then invoking xv as
>> > 
>> >     $ xv -name myxv -poll [myfile]
>> > 
>> > it starts on page (x,y) as desired, but then later, when the image file
>> > changes, the 'new' (i.e., updated) window always pops up on the current page.
>> 
>> You'd have to use FvwmEvent to do this.  Listen on the new_page event and
>> either iconify or deiconify the window as appropriate.
>> 
>
> Thanks! I will take a shot at it with that approach, thank you.

I suggest you just add RandomPlacement.
I confine various windows to a page that way.

DestroyFunc PageR
AddToFunc PageR I Style "$0" StartsOnPage $1 $2 $3, SkipMapping, RandomPlacement
#                   desk/x/y
PageR "*Outlook Web*" 0 1 2
PageR "Untitled Message*" 0 1 2
PageR Seamonkey-bin 0 0 1
PageR Netscape      0 0 1
PageR Mozilla*      0 0 1
PageR s2.pl         0 1 0
PageR s1.py         0 1 0
PageR xmms          0 1 1
PageR Audacious*    0 1 1
PageR Ryhthmbox*    0 1 1
PageR Music*        0 1 1


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Dan Espen