Re: FVWM: bookmark/unbookmark multiple windows

Paul Fox <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.fvwm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hope you don't mind me replying on-list, to make sure others see this.

lucio wrote:
 > On Thu, 20 Dec 2018, Paul Fox wrote:
 > 
 > > Can someone describe the stick/unstick method, or give an example? I'm 
 > > unfamiliar with it.
 > 
 > Do you have a window menu associated to your window title bar ? Does that 
 > menu show a "(Un)Stick (Shift-Alt-F4)" ?

I do!  Thanks -- I've been using fvwm for about 20 years (if that's
possible), and have never used that feature.  And I certainly never
thought to use it for moving a window.  I always drag the window I
want to move on the FvwmButtons panel with Button 2, but sometimes, on
machines with middle button emulation, or other config issues, that's
hard or impossible to do.  Stick/unstick is way easier.

Thanks again!

paul

 > 
 > That should be part of the "standard" FVWM ... in my .fvwm2rc it is an 
 > entry
 > 
 > DestroyMenu windowops
 > AddToMenu windowops "Window menu (Shift-Alt-Space)"  Title
 >   ...
 >   + "(Un)St&ick (Shift-Alt-F4) " Pick Stick
 > ...
 > 
 > "sticky" windows are those which appear in all desktop/pages,
 > described in man fvwm,
 > 
 > A window can be defined sticky in terms of style (and therefore be present 
 > on all desktop/pages ALWAYS), or made sticky or not when needed.
 > 
 > In my look-and-feel a sticky window has a striped pattern in the title 
 > bar. In the attached partial screen dump the "terminal 3" window is not 
 > sticky and has no focus (title bar gray smooth), while the ".fvm2rc" 
 > window has focus (title bar red) and is sticky (striped title bar).
 > 
 > I usually "stick" a window when I am working on it and want to continue 
 > working with it in a different desktop (say I want to copy text from a 
 > journal file in a work desktop into a mail message where the mailer window 
 > is in a "general" desktop.
 > 
 > This is all what I meant. Very trivial.
 > Maybe the OP meant some more sophisticated use.
 > 
 > -- 
 > Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Corti 12 - I-20133 Milano (Italy)
 > For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html
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