Re: FVWM: Style ... SkipMapping

On Sat, 16 Nov 2019, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:

>   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 to
>   wait for Firefox loading all its tabs.

I ceased using Firefox long ago (now using Palemoon) but I guess what I do 
is so similar for all browsers and was what I did in the past with FF.

The only point is do you really mean "page" or "desktop" ? I have 7 
desktops each one usually of one page (I can toggle to 2 or 4 pages to 
extend off screen but I rarely do that). All browsers should go to the 
second desktop (number 1, named "web") while the first one (number 0, 
named "mail") is the one where I usually login.

I have this (actually also a vestigial FF line)

Style "Pale Moon"   StartsOnDesk 1, SkipMapping, NoPPosition
Style Firefox       StartsOnDesk 1, SkipMapping, NoPPosition

and in my StartFunction

  + "I"   Test (Init) Exec exec /usr/bin/palemoon myhomepage

I have also a (vestigial ?) efent handler which I used to force the 
browser to a fixed non-default window size, but I guess it does not matter 
anymore. You could get my present (and some past) .fvwmrc from
http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/WWW/Opinions/window.html

> 3. What happens:  Firefox is starting in its own page, but this page is
>    also the one shown on the screen rather than the page containing my
>    terminal wind- ow.

I noticed a funny behaviour sporadically when starting libreoffice (with a 
slow splash screen) and changing desks while it is coming up. libreoffice 
may come up in the wrong desktop.


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