[ icewm-Bugs-3573360 ] ignore window in alt-tab list

Bugs item #3573360, was opened at 2012-09-30 22:57
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Category: icewm-1.3
Group: None
Status: Open
>Resolution: Works For Me
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Jon Rafkind (kazzmir)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: ignore window in alt-tab list

Initial Comment:
ignoreQuickSwitch: 1 is documented as removing the specified window from the alt-tab window list but it has not worked since icewm 1.2.5. The option was deprecated in icewm 1.2.1pre1. Is there some other way to achieve this functionality? I see the code is still there but just commented out with an #if 0 block.

My use-case is I run icewm 1.3.7 with gnome-panel and I do not want alt-tab to be able to focus on the top and bottom gnome-panels where the tray icons and the start menu goes.

In 1.3.7 wmoptions.cc:247
  if (*what == 2 && options[a].flag == YFrameWindow::foIgnoreQSwitch)
       DEPRECATE("ignoreQuickSwitch windowoption"); 
  

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>Comment By: Jon Rafkind (kazzmir)
Date: 2012-10-01 00:48

Message:
This issue is solved. After a great deal of debugging I have determined
that ignoreQSwitch works as advertised. The docs are incorrect about the
usage. They state

window_class.window_name.option: argument

But the class and name order should be reversed. This is the correct way

window_name.window_class.option:argument

You can see this in wmoption.cc:getWindowOptions around line 2278. The
final string is <name>.<klass>

 if (klass != null) {
        if (name != null) {
            ustring klass_instance = name.append(".").append(klass);
            list->mergeWindowOption(opt, klass_instance, remove);
        } else      
            list->mergeWindowOption(opt, klass, remove);
    } 

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