Re: FVWM: Timeoutable activeplacement?

From: eyal elad <elad_at_CS.bgu.ac.il>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 23:02:01 +0300 (IDT)

Good morning,

> > I haveno idea regarding the second question... But here's a sad point
> > about all this modules stuff: The strongest AIZ that I can find at work
> AIZ? I am unfamiliar with this term.

So do I. It was supposed to be AIX. Every one of a bunch of RS6000s, with
32MB RAM plus 64MB VM get out of processes really soon. This is of course
nothing to blame fvwm with, but OTOH three xterms are alot more than three
modules. Any day.

> heavlily loaded machine, or there is some accounting scheme.
Nope, no schemes in here.

> It is an accepted fact that the modules should be dynamically loaded
> libraries, much like the modules from the linux kernel. It is just that
> there is no easy way of doing this in an architecture/compiler indep sort
> of way. So multiple processes it is.

At the time I worked with SCM, a scheme interpreter. Although I didn't use
this feature, it does support some sort of dynamically loadable objs, And
it is already implemented for many, many platforms (including VMS and
Amiga).

<pause as I browse through the code>

OTOH, I can't say the SCM code excels in clarity. But it is GPL.

> > matirial. I also thought about (long ago) a combo move/resize module,
> > which will allow one to draw a rectangle on the screen (like youdraw a
> > rectangle in a drawing program), and this changes a window's geometry at
> > once. Much quicker than moving-then-sizing when you want to take an
> > annoying window out of the way.

> That sounds like a good idea. It would require some major codechanges
> though...

Probably...

> > - mouse movement = window movement
> > - button-1 down = nop
> > - button-1 release = accept geometry, show window
> > - button-2 drag = change window size. This moves a point which
> > is the original bottom-left corner, although you can make it any
> > other corner by dragging it to the right (ahem, left) place.
> > - button-3 click = I don't care where you putthe window. Places the
> > window randomally or smartly out of the way.
> > - button-3 click while button-1 or -2 are down = toggle a flag,
> > which will cause the window to iconify as soon as we decide where we want
> > it.

> Well, your button choices are not what I would have chosen, but they seem
> to work.

What /would/ you choose?

> I will take a look, and see what I can do, (in between bursts of
> actual work that someone is paying me for.... ). We'll see.

You get paid? Ahh, the lucky ones. <g>
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