Re: FVWM: avoiding crosshair when thumbnailing

On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 12:26:03AM +0000, Peter Holm wrote:

Hi Peter,

> To get thumbnails within fvwmpager, I do as following.
> DestroyFunc Mini_Thumbnail
> AddToFunc Mini_Thumbnail
> + I Raise
> + I SetEnv MiniIcon-$[w.id] $[w.MiniIconFile]
> + I ThisWindow (!Shaded,  !FvwmPager, !Iconic) PipeRead \
>     "$[FVWM_USERDIR]/bin/thumb $[w.id] $[fvwm_mini_icon_size]
> $[FVWM_USERDIR]/tmp/mini_icon.tmp.$[w.id].png $[w..MiniIconFile]\
> 		&& echo WindowStyle EWMHMiniIconOverride, MiniIcon
> $[FVWM_USERDIR]/tmp/mini_icon.tmp.$[w.id].png || echo Nop"
> #-----
> 
> But the call to ThisWindow gives me a crosshair in thoose cases where
> there is no window below the mousepointer.
> How do I avoid the crosshair.?

You're seeing the crosshair because the way you've invoked Mini_Thumbnail is
not in a window context which means FVWM has no idea which window to operate
on.

How are you invoking this function?

Kindly,
Thomas