Re: FVWM: Style ... SkipMapping

Greetings,

On Tuesday, 2019-11-19 00:43:08 +0000, 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 :-)

>                                                   Firefox is desparately
> trying to get in focus and under the mouse when started. It goes to the
> desk and page we told it, SkipMapping works, but window program is jumping
> back to you like a stray dog for a peace of meat. It is fast, so you cannot
> see it without serious throttling of the CPU and GPU. I have tried couple other
> applications, but none of them exercises this behaviour. Tried even with
> InitialMapCommand style - with that, we have more freedom for experimenting.
> ...
> This works as a workaround:
> Style Firefox InitialMapCommand Schedule 500 MoveToPage 1 1

Not here,  assuming the phrase "work" refers to Fvwm at least eventually
moving back to the desktop page  where my terminal window is waiting for
input.

> This:
> Style Firefox StartsOnPage 0 1 1, SkipMapping, InitialMapCommand Schedule 500 MoveToPage 1 1
> 
> will produce the following funny scenario:
> 
> - Firefox appears on X server
> - Immediately mapped by FVWM on page 1 1
> - It gets back to you like a dog
> - ~ 0.5 seconds later, FVWM will kick it back where it belongs. :)

Again, not here.   Whatever I do  I always end up perpetually staring at
Firefox sitting in the desktop page I have assigned to it.

Since this apparently  being a  Firefox rather than  an Fvwm problem,  I
solved it now by removing the useless  "FvwmCommand 'Style Firefox Skip-
Mapping'" before the "nohup firefox" command and adding

   sleep 3
   FvwmCommand 'GotoDeskAndPage prev'

after the "nohup firefox" command.  This may well be regarded as an ugly
hack, bu at least it works, even though it takes 3 seconds.

Sincerely,
  Rainer