This should be in the FAQ by now...
What you're asking for is not currently possible, at least not
entirely. Fvwm doesn't monitor windows for name changes and then do
the equivalent of recapture to apply new styles based on that change.
For what it's worth, IMHO it shouldn't, though there is one possible
change that I wouldn't mind seeing (see below).
That said, there's a couple things you can do that might make things a
bit easier for you if you limit yourself to emacs frames. If you're
willing to live with bitmap icons, you can have emacs specify the icon
to use as a frame parameter and set up some hook or other to set that
parameter if the name changes in a particular fashion. I'm not sure
exactly how to go about that, though. The easiest thing to do is
ensure that frames are created with the name you want as you're
already aware. There's a couple of packages out there that purport to
do this; I've only used my own dsg-frames.el so I can't give a
comparison.
It would be nice if the monitor mode of FvwmCommand (in the extras
directory of the fvwm distribution) could, but currently there's no
way to do a recapture of a single window. If that feature could be
added, then one could have FvwmCommand monitor all, say, emacs windows
and apply styles to them as their titles changed. If you didn't mind
a recapture being done every time you did a find-file then maybe you
could do this today.
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Dave Goldberg
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Phone: 781-271-3887
Email: dsg_at_mitre.org
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Received on Tue Sep 30 1997 - 07:49:30 BST