Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com> wrote
on Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:49:59 +0000:
>
> Subject: Re: FVWM: Dialog placements
>
> On 28 Nov 2003 13:28:14 +0100, Carsten Prescher wrote:
> >
> > is it possible to force dialogs to pop up near or on its
> > parents? I could not found anything in the documentation.
> > Maybe I missed a capable module.
>
> I don't see an easy way to do it currently. But you may write a small
> fvwm module in Perl yourself that does Move to a position that you think
> is good near the parent, or even just a shell script with FvwmEvent.
> Some ideas (not a ready sample):
>
> parent_id=`xprop -id $[w.id] | grep WM_TRANSIENT_FOR | awk '{print $5}'`
>
> WindowId $[parent_id] Echo $[w.x] $[w.y]
I've already hacked up a module in C a while ago. It works OK,
as long as the parent app sets its WM_TRANSIENT_FOR hint correctly.
There is a flicker as fvwm moves the window, but I'd guess that
can't be avoided without putting this functionality into the
placement code of fvwm core (which I think would be a great idea,
if someone familiar with that code fancies it).
Let me know if this doesn't work for someone reason, and I'll try
to fix it for you.
http://cns.georgetown.edu/~ric/software/fvwm/FvwmPlaceTransient.tar.gz
Cheers
Ric
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Received on Mon Dec 01 2003 - 17:51:12 GMT