Re: FVWM: Re: MWM title button hints (was: Style bug?)

From: Albrecht Kadlec <albrecht_at_auto.tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 97 18:27:28 +0100

>>>>> Andrew Veliath writes:

A> On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Andrew Veliath wrote:

A> To clarify, if the application gives MWM hints to not show a Minimize or
A> Maximize button such the window in question, fvwm2 simply omits either one
A> or two of the rightmost buttons. Fvwm2 has done this WAY before 2.0.44
A> (i.e. it hasn't been touched). This is why you lose those two rightmost
A> buttons, leaving only lower and minimize (even though fvwm2 ideally should
A> have left out minimize and maximize alone).

BUG.

A> Since people are having many new button combinations nowdays, it might be
A> worth it to have fvwm2 listen to button hints and remove buttons according
A> to binding -- but this could be iffy since you might have it bound to a
A> custom function, etc.

I wouldn't remove them, but just dim them, like the menu entries (I haven't
see any dimmed menu entries lately, but I usually keep these back doors
wide open, anyway)



A> A possible option would be to have MWMMaximize and MWMMinimize, and
A> MWMTitleMenu button flags so the user can explicitly set which buttons
A> denote MWM functions (this would really be the only sure shot way to do
A> this...).

A> I can make a patch if you would like to try something like this. Come to
A> think of it, an MWMMaximize flag would nullify the need for the current
A> MWMButton flag as well.

why not just have the actual maximize/minimize functions do nothing, if
maximize/minimize is forbidden in the MwmHints and the hints are to be
obeyed.

albrecht
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Received on Mon Jan 27 1997 - 11:29:40 GMT

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