Re: FVWM: Restricting TaskBar to applications in current desktop?

From: John Latham <jtl_at_cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 17:46:26 GMT

> From: Michael Han <mikehan_at_best.com>

> Previously from John Latham
> >Curiously, it was possible with fvwm2-2.0.46-12.
> >
> > *FvwmTaskBarDeskOnly
> > Tells FvwmTaskBar to show the windows that are only
> > on the current desktop. When desktops are
> > switched, the list of windows changes accordingly.
> >
> >Why did it disappear later? - I'm just curious.
>
> Curiouser and curiouser. Only the manpage entry ever disappeared. All
> the code appears (from a cursory examination) still to be present.
>
> >Is it coming back in the same way?
>
> It'd be pretty trivial to add the entry back to the manpage... Maybe
> I'll submit the patch, unless someone else gets to it first. Anyway,
> the option still exists in the current betas, so I'm guessing it's
> always been there.

Hmm, curiouser still! It doesn't *work* (at least not for me) in
fvwm2-2.2.2-3.i386.rpm (as default in Red Hat 6.1 distribution). So maybe it's
omission from the man page (which still has the same date as in
fvwm2-2.0.46-12!) is not an accident....

The plot thickens!
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Received on Thu Mar 09 2000 - 11:46:30 GMT

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